Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415367622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str.

Jayne Caudwell

Opis

This is an explorative analysis of lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual and intersex people's experiences of sport, as well as a rigourous theoretical consideration of sociological and political issues.

Recenzje

"Her ability to synopsize most aspects of a broad field in fourteen pages is quite amazing" Terry Goldie, 2008

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Queer/Theory and the Study of Sport  1. Queering Theories of Sexuality in Sport Studies  Heather Sykes  2. Beyond the Pale: The Whiteness of Sport Studies and Queer Scholarship  Mary McDonald  Part II: Sports' Practices and Communities: Disrupting Heteronormativity?  3. Queer Athletes and Queering in Sport Heidi Eng  4. Ten Men Out: Gay Sporting Masculinities in Softball  Nigel Jarvis  5. Exploring the Limits of Queer and Sport: Gay Men Playing Tennis  Ian Wellard  6. The Necessity of Queer Shame for Gay Pride: The Gay Games and Cultural Events  Judy Davidson  Part III: Possibilities for Queer Bodies in Sport  7. Transgendering Sex and Sport in the Gay Games  Caroline Symons and Dennis Hemphill  8. Catching Crabs: Bodies, Emotions and Gay Identities in Mainstream Competitive Rowing  Gareth Owen  9. Femme-Fatale: Re-thinking the Femme-inine  Jayne Caudwell  10. Heterosexual Femininity: The Painful Process of Subjectification  Rebecca Lock

O autorze

Jayne Caudwell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at the Chelsea School, University of Brighton.