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Built to Win The Female Athlete As Cultural Icon

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ISBN-10: 0816636249

ISBN-13: 9780816636242

Edition: 2003

Authors: Leslie Heywood, Shari L. Dworkin

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List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 6/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Shari L. Dworkin is Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness  and Men at Risk , both with NYU Press.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue:Women We Love Who Kick Butt
Powered Up or Dreaming?
Sport as the Stealth Feminism of the Third Wave
A New Look at Female Athletes and Masculinity
Bodies, Babes, and the Wnba
Body Panic Parity
She Will Beat You Up, and Your Papa, Too
Epilogue: It's an Image
Appendix: Focus-Group Research on Youth Attitudes About Female Athletes
Notes
Index