Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture
with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have
transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The
national obsession with the National Football League provides a
window on this dynamic period of change, reshaping ideas about
manliness to respond to new urgencies on and beyond the gridiron.
Thomas P. Oates uses feminist theory to break down the dynamic
cultural politics shaping, and shaped by, today's NFL. As he shows,
the league's wildly popular product provides an arena for media
producers to work out and recalibrate the anxieties,
contradictions, and challenges that characterize contemporary
masculinity. Oates draws from a range of pop culture narratives to
map the complex set of theories about gender and race and to reveal
a league and fan base in flux. Though longing for a past dominated
by white masculinity, the mediated NFL also subtly aligns with a
new economic reality that demands it cope with the shifting
relations of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Indeed, pro
football crafts new meanings of each by its canny mobilization of
historic ideological processes.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Illinois Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2017 |
| Authors: |
Thomas P. Oates
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
232 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-252-08244-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-252-08244-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780252082443 |
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