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Sport, Gender and Mega-Events

Sport, Gender and Mega-Events

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

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Emerald Publishing Ltd
Año de edición:
2021
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Estudios de género, grupos de género
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9781839829376
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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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