Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Lenskyj, H.

Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137291141)

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Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Lenskyj, H.

Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

$65.00
Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Lenskyj, H.

Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

$65.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

Author: H. Lenskyj
ISBN-10: 1137291141
ISBN-13: 9781137291141
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 159
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

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Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emirita of the University of Toronto, Canada. Her previous publication include The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (co-edited with S. Wagg); Olympic Industry Resistance; The Best Ever Olympics?; and Inside the Olympics Industry

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