Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry
By (Author) H. Lenskyj
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Pivot
30th October 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Gender studies, gender groups
Social and cultural history
Political science and theory
Sociology
Politics and government
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
796.48089
Physical Properties
Hardback
159
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
3158g
Description
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.
Reviews
"Lenskyj continues her assault on the hegemony of the Olympic movement, which she refers to as the Olympic industry... The arguments are presented with great literary finesse, and may leave the reader wondering if there is any redeeming value in the Olympic movement"- Choice Review
"Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry brings a much-needed critique of global gendered power relations into a dynamic conversation in feminist sport studies ... [a] timely and highly relevant book" - International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Author Bio
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emirita of the University of Toronto, Canada. Her previous publication include The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (co-edited with S. Wagg); Olympic Industry Resistance; The Best Ever Olympics; and Inside the Olympics Industry
