Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy.
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Sport and culture series ;
v. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Julie Foudy
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue : women we love who kick butt
- 1. Powered up or dreaming?
- 2. Sport as the stealth feminism of the Third Wave
- 3. A new look at female athletes and masculinity
- 4. Bodies, babes, and the WNBA
- 5. Body panic parity
- 6. She will beat you up, and your papa, too
- Epilogue : it's an image
- appendix. Focus-group research on youth attitudes about female athletes
- Notes
- Index.