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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
Temple University Press, 2012 Cloth: 978-1-4399-0963-8 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0965-2 | Paper: 978-1-4399-0964-5 Library of Congress Classification GV715+ Dewey Decimal Classification 796.082
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The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports—acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women. In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey See other books on: Cultural & Social Aspects | Gender identity | Markovits, Andrei S. | Sociological aspects | Sports See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
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Temple University Press, 2012
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0963-8
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0965-2
Paper: 978-1-4399-0964-5
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0963-8
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0965-2
Paper: 978-1-4399-0964-5
The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports—acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women.
Sportista chronicles the relationship that women have developed with sports in the wake of the second wave of feminism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The changes women athletes have achieved have been nothing short of revolutionary. But, as Markovits and Albertson argue, women’s identities as sports fans, though also changed in recent decades, remain notably different from that of men. Sportista highlights the impediments to these changes that women have faced and the reality that, even as bona fide fans, they “speak” sports differently from and remain largely unaccepted by men.
In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey
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