| Description |
xxi, 399 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Postmodernism and the possibilities for writing "vital" sports texts / Toni Bruce -- "How do you warm-up for a stretch class?" : sub/in/di/verting hegemonic shoves toward sport / Nate Kohn and Synthia Sydnor -- Born-again sport : ethics in biographical research / Robert Rinehart -- Representing black masculinity and urban possibilities : racism, realism, and Hoop dreams / Cheryl L. Cole and Samantha King -- Lesbians and locker rooms : the subjective experiences of lesbians in sport / Caroline Fusco -- Colonizing the feminine : Nike's intersections of postfeminism and hyperconsumption / Melisse R. Lafrance -- Seismography of the postmodern condition : three theses on the implosion of sport / Genevieve Rail -- Sex, lies, and videotape : the political and cultural economies of celebrity fitness videos / Margaret MacNeill -- Excavating Michael Jordan : notes on a critical pedagogy of sporting representation / David Andrews -- Baudrillard, "Amerique," and the hyperreal World Cup / Steve Redhead -- Instrumental rationalization of human movement : an archeological approach / Jacques Gleyse -- Addiction, exercise, and cyborgs : technologies of deviant bodies / Cheryl L. Cole -- Post-sport : transgressing boundaries in physical culture / Brian Pronger -- Search of the sports bar : masculinity, alcohol, sports, and the mediation of public space / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Rap and dialectical relations : culture, subculture, power, and counter-power / Nancy Midol -- Hassiba Boulmerka and Islamic green : international sports, cultural differences, and their postmodern interpretation / William J. Morgan -- (Ir)relevant ring : the symbolic consumption of the Olympic logo in postmodern media culture / Rob VanWynsberghe and Ian Ritchie. |
| Subject |
Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Physical education and training -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Rail, Genevieve, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0791439267 (PB : alk. paper) |
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0791439259 (HC : alk. paper) |
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