WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Michael Messner, European Canadian, Masculin Féminin
9 Jan 2018
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The general devaluation of time that women have always had to face. Hegemonic ideas about masculinity are being shaken in our contemporary society. The symbolic importance of contact sports is heightened. Football player abuse coming out at the same time as domestic violence advertisement during superbowl. World sport remains one of the slowest social institutions to adopt more fluid definitions of gender . It"s just a game, don"t take it seriously but it is very important not just because it is an economic driver, but because it reinforces ideas about who we are. Sports and national identity movie lagaan indian film about cricket where they turn around and beat the british at their own came and is a commentary on the legacy of british rule. Hockey seems to define national identity in canada, for example as illustrated through the miss universe.
