SSCI 2700U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Identity, Masculinity
1. Pop Culture
Hockey Nation: Sports & National Identity
Institutional Structure
Bill C-131, The Fitness and Amateur Sport Act• CAAWS: Canadian Association for the
Advancement of
Women in Sport and Physical Activity
“To advance the position of women by defining, promoting, and supporting feminist perspective
on sport and to improve the status of women in sport”
Consumption/Production
CAAWS mandate change • Media coverage and
ownership
Female athletes & journalists
“Corporate nationalism”
Masculinist sports-media complex?
Women sports:• Hidden social opposition• Lack of facilities/resources • Corporate nationalism
Canadian Masculinity
Male athletes:
Off the ice: Polite, humble, gentlemen
On the ice: warriors who are willing to do battle
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