192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first book focusing exclusively on this subject, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory captures the newest and best writing on an emerging focus of study that brings in perspectives from a number of disciplines including sports studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies. An accessible introduction to this dynamic field, this is an... Read more
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
Biography
Jayne Caudwell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at the Chelsea School, University of Brighton.
"Her ability to synopsize most aspects of a broad field in fourteen pages is quite amazing" Terry Goldie, 2008
