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Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

By:H. Lenskyj
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349450763
eText ISBN:9781137291158
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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.