Balancing acts : women in sport : essays on power, performance, bodies & love / edited by Justin Wolfers with Erin Riley ; introduction by Tegan Higginbotham.
Publisher: Melbourne, Vic. : Brow Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: iiustrations,portraits, 312 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925704020 (paperback)
- 796.082 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 796.082 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 68018 |
Includes index.
Focusing on a critically underrepresented part of Australian culture (the many ways non-male participants in sport negotiate the traditionally male spectacle of athleticism) this accessible and inclusive collection investigates the way sporting bodies and achievements are portrayed in Australian media and daily life. The book understands the term ‘sport’ in the widest possible sense, and applies the definition of ‘women’ in the same broad way to include trans, gender diverse, non-binary, intersex, and otherwise non-cis women. Several essays are also written from and/or about queer, gay, and bisexual women. Essays examine the way women athletes’ experience are marginalised and under-reported, and attempt to de-centre the status quo of sports writing and commentary as currently dominated by male perspectives and expertise.
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