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Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon

Author: Leslie Heywood; Shari L Dworkin
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Series: Sport and culture series, v. 5.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leslie Heywood; Shari L Dworkin
ISBN: 0816636230 9780816636235 0816636249 9780816636242
OCLC Number: 51304091
Description: xxix, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Sport and culture series, v. 5.
Responsibility: Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy.

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