Built to Win : The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon.

By: Heywood, LeslieContributor(s): Dworkin, Shari L | Foudy, JulieMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Sport and CulturePublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816691814Subject(s): Feminism and sports -- United States | Sex discrimination in sports -- United States | Sports for women -- Social aspects -- United States | Women athletes -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Built to Win : The Female Athlete as Cultural IconDDC classification: 796/.082 LOC classification: GV709.18.U6 -- H49 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Women We Love Who Kick Butt -- ONE: Powered Up or Dreaming? -- TWO: Sport as the Stealth Feminism of the Third Wave -- THREE: A New Look at Female Athletes and Masculinity -- FOUR: Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA -- FIVE: Body Panic Parity -- SIX: She Will Beat You Up, and Your Papa, Too -- Epilogue: It's an Image -- Appendix: Focus-Group Research on Youth Attitudes about Female Athletes -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Summary: Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of empowered female athletes in American popular culture through interviews with girls and boys; readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others; discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their own sports experiences. Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Women We Love Who Kick Butt -- ONE: Powered Up or Dreaming? -- TWO: Sport as the Stealth Feminism of the Third Wave -- THREE: A New Look at Female Athletes and Masculinity -- FOUR: Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA -- FIVE: Body Panic Parity -- SIX: She Will Beat You Up, and Your Papa, Too -- Epilogue: It's an Image -- Appendix: Focus-Group Research on Youth Attitudes about Female Athletes -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of empowered female athletes in American popular culture through interviews with girls and boys; readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others; discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their own sports experiences. Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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