WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Roch Carrier, Stoicism, Gender Binary
11 Mar 2016
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Suggests that in this landscape, the symbolic importance of sports (especially contact sports) are heightened. In the entire year of us television, the most expensive time in the sporting worlds. Raises questions about the sanctioned and unsanctioned forms of violence. Super bowl ad about domestic violence- ironic because football is violence. The politics of inclusion: sporting worlds: why take sports seriously as feminists, gender binaries (revision); producing difference in sport, the world of naturalizing, access and including: possibilities and limits. Sports matters because of the significance it resumes in our society. Sports industry even bigger than the car industry. Generates and reinforces ideas of who we are. Accused of having too much testosterone and was kicked out of participating as a woman in track and field, her future in the olympics is contested. Cant participate as a man either because her documents are of her as a woman. Women over performing so they must be men.
