Football and manliness : an unauthorized feminist account of the NFL

Football and manliness : an unauthorized feminist account of the NFL /

"Professional football is often parodied as a simplistic, straightforward assertion of male power. However, in this book Thomas P. Oates examines the shifting presentation of masculinity and race through media coverage of professional football and contends that in contemporary US media culture,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oates, Thomas Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Subjects:
National Football League.
National Football League
Football > Social aspects > United States.
Mass media and sports > United States.
Masculinity.
Feminist theory.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Football.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Feminist theory
Football > Social aspects
Masculinity
Mass media and sports
United States
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Football, Manliness, and Populism; Pregame: Man in Motion: The Shifting Meanings of Masculinity, Race, and Football; 1
  • "This Game has Got to be about More than Winning": Football Melodramas and the Defense of the Homosocial Enclave; 2
  • "We Ought to See what we're Buying": The NFL Draft and Regimes of Visibility; 3
  • Male Order: Masculine Authority, Professional Football, and Enterprising Culture; 4
  • Man Management: Football Gaming and the "Financialization of Daily Life"; Postgame: The End of Football?
  • NotesIndex; About the Author.

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