Sport and Its Female Fans
Title | Sport and Its Female Fans PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Toffoletti |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0415883814 |
Why do women follow sports? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field.
Female Spectators
Title | Female Spectators PDF eBook |
Author | E. Deidre Pribram |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Feminist thinking on cinema has been dominated by approaches which emphasize how meanings are produced in films, and how this process hinges on sexual differences and prileges the masculine. The essays in this collection have been written by feminist film-makers and theorists on both sides of the Atlantic. Together, they provide a picture of feminist film criticism in teh 1980s, perspective readings of individual films and TV programs, and insights from women in the business of making films today.--Adapted from book jacket.
Female Football Spectators in Britain 1863-1939
Title | Female Football Spectators in Britain 1863-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lewis |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2023-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000883116 |
This book analyses women as spectators at men’s association football (soccer) in Britain from 1863 to 1939. The author shows that women have always been present at men’s football in Britain, a fact not always acknowledged in modern popular accounts of the game, albeit as a small minority in overall attendances. Some women have always been ‘authentic’ fans of football, both knowledgeable and enthusiastic in their support, and this book will demonstrate that.
When Romeo was a Woman
Title | When Romeo was a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Merrill |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Actors |
ISBN | 9780472087495 |
Examines the life of the androgynous nineteenth-century American actress and her work on the Anglo-American stage
Beyond Spectacle
Title | Beyond Spectacle PDF eBook |
Author | Juliette Merritt |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780802035400 |
Theories of sight and spectatorship captivated many writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century and, in turn, helped to define both sexual politics and gender identity. Eliza Haywood was thoroughly engaged in the social, philosophical, and political issues of her time, and she wrote prolifically about them, producing over seventy-five works of literature - plays, novels, and pamphlets - during her lifetime. Examining a number of works from this prodigious canon, Juliette Merritt focuses on Haywood's consideration of the myriad issues surrounding sight and seeing and argues that Haywood explored strategies to undermine the conventional male spectator/female spectacle structure of looking. Combining close readings of Haywood's work with twentieth-century debates among feminist and psychoanalytic theorists concerning the visual dynamics of identity and gender formation, Merritt explores insights into how the gaze operates socially, epistemologically, and ontologically in Haywood's writing, ultimately concluding that Haywood's own strategy as an author involved appropriating the spectator position as a means of exercising female power. Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well.
Female Fans of the NFL
Title | Female Fans of the NFL PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Cunningham Osborne |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2015-09-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1317663780 |
In the past, sport, particularly football, has been defined as a male domain. Women’s interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active resistance. But increasingly, women are proudly identifying themselves as supporters of their teams, and have become highly desirable audiences for sport organizations and merchandisers. Football provides a unique site at which to examine the complex interplay between three theoretical areas: identity formation and maintenance, commercialization of cultural practices, and gender hegemony. This book explores how women experience their fandom, and what barriers exist for the female fan.
The Female Spectator
Title | The Female Spectator PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Fowler Haywood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1775 |
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