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Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson

 
9781838677763: The Olympic Games: A Critical Approach
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ISBN 10 : 1838677763 ISBN 13 : 9781838677763
Editeur : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020

Synopsis

Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics command public attention, while Olympic mythology obscures their underlying function as a profit-making business. Unlike terms such as 'Olympic movement' and 'Olympic family', the concept of 'Olympic industry' focuses on sport as an economic and political enterprise, with its beneficiaries including sponsors, media rights holders, developers, and politicians. Negative impacts on host cities disproportionately threaten the lives and well-being of disadvantaged minorities. Citizens' Olympic resistance campaigns address a range of human rights abuses, while recent athlete activism also focuses on the doping problem and the sexual abuse of girls and women. Female athletes with 'differences of sexual development' face discriminatory gender policies that disqualify them from women's events. All of these issues are analysed through a feminist, anti-racist lens.

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À propos de l?auteur

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto. Her work as a researcher and activist on gender and sport issues began in the 1980s, and her critiques of the Olympic industry include Inside the Olympic Industry and Olympic Industry Resistance.

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Éditeur
Emerald Publishing Limited
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1838677763
ISBN 13 
9781838677763
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
250
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