| Series |
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations |
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SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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| Subject |
Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Physical education and training -- Social aspects.
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| Alt Name |
Rail, Geneviève, 1958-
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| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 399 pages). |
| Bibliography Note |
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 / Mélisse R. Lafrance -- Seismography of the postmodern condition: three theses on the implosion of sport / Geneviève 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, "Amérique," 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 -- In 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
0585060843 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585060842 (electronic bk.) |
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0791439259 |
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0791439267 |
| OCLC # |
42855427 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Sport and postmodern times. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998 0791439259 (DLC) 97050231 (OCoLC)38061661 |
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