Sportsex
Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women -- but mostly men - to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that in any other context would be considered taboo.

Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the world through a number  of different athletic activities. Along the way he also offers his own personal connection to sport as both a researcher and recipient of its abuses and pleasures.

In a world where everything is considered in its relationship to globalization, sport is one of the few arenas of social life that can be concretely seen in international terms. Sportsex opens that world up in a way that is accessible and significant for anyone interested in the shape of our emerging world culture.
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Sportsex
Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women -- but mostly men - to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that in any other context would be considered taboo.

Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the world through a number  of different athletic activities. Along the way he also offers his own personal connection to sport as both a researcher and recipient of its abuses and pleasures.

In a world where everything is considered in its relationship to globalization, sport is one of the few arenas of social life that can be concretely seen in international terms. Sportsex opens that world up in a way that is accessible and significant for anyone interested in the shape of our emerging world culture.
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Sportsex

Sportsex

by Toby Miller
Sportsex

Sportsex

by Toby Miller

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Overview

Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women -- but mostly men - to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that in any other context would be considered taboo.

Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the world through a number  of different athletic activities. Along the way he also offers his own personal connection to sport as both a researcher and recipient of its abuses and pleasures.

In a world where everything is considered in its relationship to globalization, sport is one of the few arenas of social life that can be concretely seen in international terms. Sportsex opens that world up in a way that is accessible and significant for anyone interested in the shape of our emerging world culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592138203
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 07/06/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 632 KB

About the Author

Toby Miller is Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy at New York University, and is the author of numerous books on media, culture, and sports, including The Avengers and Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS


Introduction: Sportsextro
1. Bodnam: Body, Nation, Media
2. Commodifying the Male Body = Problematizing Hegemonic Masculinity?
3. Panic Sports and the Racialized Male Body (with Jim McKay and David Rowe)
4. Courting Lesbianism (with Jim McKay and Randy Martin
Conclusion: Bookers with Hooters
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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