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Football, Culture and Power

By Leonard, David J.

Football, Culture and Power Social Sciences

Football, Culture and Power

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This book brings together scholars, writers and commentators to examine the relationship between football, violence and the larger relations of power in which we all live our lives. Within the context of the NFL and the structural conditions in which the NFL has emerged, this book explores issues of racism, sexism and homophobia as a window into the social, political and cultural imprint of America's national pastime. The book argues that the NFL reveals a collective psychic participation, by which our subjectivity is formed within historical systems of violence, power, and hierarchy. The NFL's participation in and production of hegemonic masculinity, alongside its practices of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism, allows us to think deeply about the historical and contemporary systems of violence we are invested in and entertained by. Football becomes a cultural text to examine and learn from.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
300
Release Date:
2016-08-29
Publication Date:
2016-08-24
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1138923567
ISBN13:
9781138923560
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
617 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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