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Sport, Gender and Mega-Events (Hardcover)
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Sport, Gender and Mega-Events (Hardcover)
Series: Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
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Sport mega-events are more than just large-scale gatherings and
celebrations of human athletic achievement; they are also arenas
through which groups and individuals perform, reinforce, challenge
and disrupt identities, power and status. Understanding that sport
is widely recognised as a practice through which normative ideas of
gender are both reinforced and challenged, this book explores how
this is magnified in the context of sport mega-events with their
associated global media attention, elite performance, and social
and cultural relevance. As sport mega-events become ever more
prominent in popular culture, and are used by governments as tools
to stimulate national and regional development, critical analysis
of the gendered aspects of mega-events is increasingly important.
Featuring a range of mega-event case studies and conceptual
discussions, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events shows the significance
of mega-events to wider sporting practices, and considers how these
highly mediatised global phenomena both reflect and help shape
broader ideas about gender, sex and identity in and beyond sport.
Demonstrating how mega-events represent an important context
through which to explore questions related to sex, gender and
identity, Dashper's exquisitely collated chapters unpick
mega-events as gendered entities and showcase how they both
position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions -
male or female - and also push the boundaries of what we see and
accept as recognisably gendered male or female bodies and
identities.
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