Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

by H. Lenskyj

Overview

This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137291141
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/30/2012
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	159
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emirita of the University of Toronto, Canada. Her previous publication include The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (co-edited with S. Wagg); Olympic Industry Resistance; The Best Ever Olympics?; and Inside the Olympics Industry

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

1 Introduction 1

2 Beyond Binaries: An Intersectional Analysis 11

3 The Limits of Liberalism: Sex, Gender and Sexualities 39

4 Challenges to the Olympic Industry 52

5 In the Pool, on the Ice: Contested Terrain 87

6 Sex and the Games 108

7 Conclusion 131

Bibliography 137

Index 153

Editorial Reviews

"Lenskyj continues her assault on the hegemony of the Olympic movement, which she refers to as the Olympic industry... The arguments are presented with great literary finesse, and may leave the reader wondering if there is any redeeming value in the Olympic movement"- Choice Review

"Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry brings a much-needed critique of global gendered power relations into a dynamic conversation in feminist sport studies ... [a] timely and highly relevant book" - International Review for the Sociology of Sport

From the Publisher