Learning Culture through Sports Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports
by Prettyman, Sandra Spickard; Lampman, Brian; Abrams, Doug; Coakley, Jay; Cooky, Cheryl; Dionigi, Rylee; Harrison, Keith; Hattery, Angela J.; Katz, Jackson; King, C. Richard; Kusz, Kyle; Jones, Carwyn; Lapchick, Richard; McDonald, Mary; Norman, Leanne; Rail-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Studying Sport-What Can We Learn and Why Do We Care? | p. 1 |
Youth and Sport | |
Sport Specialization and Its Effects | p. 7 |
The Power of a Coach: Sport and Life's Lasting Lessons | p. 18 |
Achieving Equal Opportunity in Youth Sports: Roles for the ôPower of the Permitö and the ôChild Impact Statementö | p. 32 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Sport | |
Jocks Rule-Girls Drool: Middle School Definitions of a Jock | p. 43 |
The Frontrunner Failed to Land a Knockout Punch: Sports Metaphors, Masculinities, and Presidential Politics | p. 61 |
The Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Talks Back: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Media Power | p. 78 |
Come Out and Play: Confronting Homophobia in Sports | p. 92 |
Title IX Literacy: What Every Citizen Should Know about Title IX, Gender Equity, and College Sport | p. 107 |
Race, Ethnicity, and Sport | |
Sincere Fictions of Whiteness in New Millennium American Sport Films | p. 124 |
Reporting in Black and White: Coverage of Coaching Scandals in Minnesota-Two Different Worlds? | p. 143 |
Duke Lacrosse: An Exploration of Race, Class, Power, and Privilege | p. 158 |
Asian Americans in Unexpected Places: Sport, Racism, and the Media | p. 147 |
Sport, Media, and Big Business | |
Katrina's Tragic Wake and a Saintly Rescue: A Work in Progress | p. 182 |
Sports and Economics: An Examination of College Sports and Big Business | p. 193 |
Do Girls Rule? Understanding Popular Culture Images of ôGirl Power!ö and Sport | p. 210 |
International Perspectives on Sport and Participation | |
British National Female Coaches on Coaching | p. 227 |
Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympics, and Issues of Fair Competition | p. 238 |
Strong Women, Fragile Closets: The Queering of Women's Sport | p. 251 |
Older Athletes: Resisting and Reinforcing Discourses of Sport and Aging | p. 260 |
Conclusion: Thinking through the Contradictions in Sport | p. 279 |
Index | p. 283 |
About the Editors | p. 295 |
About the Contributors | p. 296 |
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