Sex, drugs and Barbie : gender verification, drug testing, and the commodification of the black female athlete

Representations of black female sporting bodies, when taken as what Susan Bordo (1997) refers to as “texts of culture,” operate as sites for an interrogation of the production and maintenance of ideologies of race, gender, sexuality and deviance in the context of Western society. The purpose of this...

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Main Author: Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22379