Out on the Field: Gender, Sport, and Sexualities | 
 enlarge | Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher: Women's Press (CA)
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1024877
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0889614164
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.082
EAN: 9780889614161
ASIN: 0889614164
Publication Date: August 1, 2003
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Product Description
This book provides an in-depth examination of gender, sport and sexualities; an analysis of the limitations of liberal feminist responses; and an exploration of radical feminist alternatives. Dr. Lenskyj presents illuminating case studies from Canada, the United States and Australia, with exposes of coaches' and administrators' complicity in perpetuating the chilly climate for female athletes in general, and for lesbians in particular. It includes a content analysis of the mass media treatment of sportswomen, and a discussion of how lesbian characters are portrayed in mainstream and lesbian fiction. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, Dr. Lenskyj contexualises the homophobia and sexual harassment present in the everyday experiences of significant numbers of women involved in sport and physical activity. She shows that despite three decades of feminist and lesbian activism, and despite the apparent liberalization of attitudes since the 1960s, lesbian sexuality remains largely "in the closet" while heterosexuality continues to be exploited in the name of selling sport. Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities will be interesting to the general reader as well as professors and students in the areas of sociology, women's studies, sport, gender diversity, the social sciences, and the humanities.
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