• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Female Olympians: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline

Female Olympians: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline

Paperback

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1349958743
ISBN13: 9781349958740
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 9 2018
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women's bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians' successes.

Also in

General Sociology