Rachael Miyung Joo

Transnational Sport

Gender, Media, and Global Korea

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Produktbeschreibung

A cultural study of gender and nation in Korean sports, in a transnational frame.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348429
• ISBN-10: 082234842X
• Artikelnr.: 33876501

Autorenporträt

Rachael Miyung Joo is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Middlebury College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Transliteration xiii
Introduction: Manufacturing Koreanness through Transnational Sport 1
Part I. Situating Transnational Media Sport
1. To Be a Global Player: Sport and Korean Developmental Nationalisms 35
2. A Leveraged Playing Field: U.S. Multiculturalism and Korean Athletes 65
Part II. Reading Masculinities and Femininities through Transnational
Athletes
3. Playing Hard Ball: The Athletic Body and Korean/American Masculinities
101
4. Traveling Ladies: Neoliberalism and the Female Athlete 131
Part III. The Transnational Publics of the World Cup
5. Nation Love: The Feminized Publics of the Korean World Cup 163
6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los
Angeles's Koreatown 194
7. Generations Connect: Discourses of Generation and the Emergence of
Transnational Youth Cultures 222
Conclusion: The Political Potentiality of Sport 250
Notes 267
References 303
Index 323