female fandom in the United States
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Markovits, Andrei S.
- Creator
- Albertson, Emily K.
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- sporten, supporters, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book, the authors 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. It 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. 1. The origins of gender difference in sport, 2. Process of exclusion and suppression of females in male-dominated realms other than sport, 3. Women as sports producers, 4. Fandom and the typical female sports fan, 5. Sportista I: professional women in the contested space of sports media, 6. Sportista II: Following as a hobby, the a-typical female sports fan.