Coad The Metrosexual

Gender, Sexuality, and Sport
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7841-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coad, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Part One

1. Sports Sex

Gender and Sexual Mythologies
Jock culture
Sports Rape
Homosocial Desire
Homosexual Outing
Heterosexual Outing

2. Metro Sex

Mirror Men
Dandies
Playboys
Feminine Side
Backlash

Part Two

3. New York

GQ
Ralph Lauren and His Models
Protometrosexuality
Fashion Photographs of Athletes

4. Armani

Armani's Stellar American Athletes
Armani's Superstars in Europe
The Great Masculine Renunciation

Part Three

5. Undies

Premetrosexual Undies
The Pioneer of the Undie Revolution
The Modern Kouros
Football and Basketball Favorites
The All-American Metrosexual
Undie Trouble
Resistance to Metrosexuality
Metrosexual Undies
What Do Undies Reveal?

6. Black Bodies

The African American Aesthetic
Pimped Out Bodies
NBA Tattoos and Bling-bling
Mainstream and Transracial Pimped Out Bodies
Fetishizing Black Bodies
Black Bodies in Briefs

7. Sporno Stars

Sports Nudity
The Gay Gaze
Soccer Photo Albums
Sports Calendars
A&F Catalogs
Fetishizing the Exotic

8. Metrosexual Masculinity

Joe Namath
Ian Thorpe
David Beckham
Beautiful Bodies

Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Coad is Associate Professor of English at the Université de Valenciennes, France, and the author of Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities.