By Cara Carmichael Aitchison

This significant new ebook brings jointly gender reports and sexuality stories to supply unique and demanding insights into approaches of identification formation in quite a lot of sport-related contexts. The authors draw on modern debates bearing on gender and id from a number of disciplines together with sociology, social and cultural geography, media reports and administration experiences, to handle key matters in masculinity, femininity and sexuality: half 1: Representing masculinities in game analyses media representations of men’s activities, exploring the diversity and complexity of innovations of masculinity. half 2: Transgressing femininities in game uses case reports to ascertain the stories of ladies in male-dominated carrying arenas. half three: appearing sexualities in recreation analyses the function of queer concept in game reports, explores reviews of and responses to homophobia in recreation, and examines the importance of the homosexual video games. This ebook may be of specific curiosity to scholars and teachers operating in recreation experiences, relaxation experiences, gender experiences, queer and sexuality reviews, social and cultural geography, and sociology.

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Often, cheering or dancing fans, especially children, are caught on camera as a way to keep audience attention during breaks in game play. Sometimes, however, catching fans at play is part of a contest: the audience is instructed to applaud at, for instance, the best banner or fan dressed in team paraphernalia. Finally, some WNBA teams also sponsor post-game events, like concerts. Many of the elements mentioned above could occur at any professional sporting event. At the WNBA game, however, the spectator’s experience is also defined by the portrayal of strong female athletes.

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