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  • Sport, Gender and Mega-Events
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    This volume unpicks mega-events as gendered entities and showcases how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as a recognisably gendered male or female body. ...
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    142,62 €

  • Sports Charity and Gendered Labour
    Catherine Palmer / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    Sports Charity and Gendered Labour provides examples for teaching and knowledge sharing across analyses of gender, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing in ways that will have broad relevance to a range of audiences. ...
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    87,97 €

  • Running, Identity and Meaning
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj / Neil Baxter
    Running, Identity and Meaning showcases how gender, class, age and ethnicity influence whether and how different groups participate in the sport, and explores its role in the reproduction of social structure and the search for distinction. ...
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    142,85 €

  • The Olympic Games
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making business enterprise. ...
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    34,75 €

  • Gender, Athletes’ Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to examining gender-related sports dispute resolution by the Court of Arbitration. Identifying complexities around gender, gender binaries, and the ways in which intersecting identities complicate resolutions, the author demonstrate how athletes’ rights are threatened by a forced arbitration process. ...
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    104,04 €

  • Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows examines Russia’s 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. A century in the making, these laws reflect decades of sexual repression in the former Soviet Union. Despite societal changes since 1993, there is little acceptance of sexual diversity, and the 2013 anti-gay law has led to an in...
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    65,78 €

  • Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry identifies and analyses the historical and contemporary connections between the Olympic industry and gender, taking into account the variables of social class, race/ethnicity and sexuality. For more than 100 years, the Olympic industry has controlled global sport and shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities fo...
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    77,95 €

  • The Best Olympics Ever?
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach’s proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the 'best ever,' the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympics Ever? Helen Jefferson Lenskyj discloses what...
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    43,27 €

  • Inside the Olympic Industry
    Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
    Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global Games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olym...
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    42,12 €