Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines

ISBN-13: 9783319767918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 290 str.

Linda K. Fuller

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive yet concise account and analyses of female Olympic and Paralympic events. Combining academic approaches with accessible information, Fuller's book addresses the history of female Olympian and Paralympian experiences from the late-nineteenth century through the present.

Spis treści

1. Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events

2. Summer Events

3. Winter Events

4. Comments and Predictions on Female Olympian and Paralympian Events

O autorze

Linda K. Fuller is Professor of Communications at Worcester State University, USA. She is author or editor of more than thirty books, including Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender, Sportscasters/Sportscasting, Sexual Sports Rhetoric, The Power of Global Community Media, and Female Olympians. The recipient of Fulbrights to Singapore and Senegal, she has also visited every host country of the Olympic Games. Visit her website at LKFullerSport.com.