Rob Cover

Vulnerability and Exposure

Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

'Vulnerability and Exposure: footballer scandals, masculine identity and ethics' presents a critical investigation of contemporary masculine team sports and football scandals and their relationship with gendered cultures, institutions and identity norms. Drawing on reports of Australian Rules football off- field scandals over the past decade, the book critically examines cases of sexual assault, illicit drug use and binge drinking, homophobia, violence and other controversial behaviours that have become norms in the reporting of sportsplayers' off-field lives. Using a range of approaches to unpack some of the ways in which these scandals are produced and understood, and how they impact on reputations (of players, clubs and the game itself), Cover identifies the cultural factors significant in the production of the contemporary footballer identity, and the ways in which these identities are constructed, performed and reported on. IIn utilising scandal to develop ways in which off-field behaviour in sport can be re-made as a relatively harmless event for women, bystanders and players, this work develops an approach to ethics by showing that footballers are well-placed to see the vulnerability of others through their own vulnerability to injury, career breaks and loss of reputation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Western Australia Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781742586496
• ISBN-10: 174258649X
• Artikelnr.: 41418742

Autorenporträt

"Rob Cover is Associate Professor in Communication Studies at The University of Western Australia. He completed his PhD in media theory and queer theory at Monash University (Melbourne), and subsequently taught at Monash and the University of Melbourne. He has also previously taught in media studies at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and in media at The University of Adelaide. He has written for a range of news publications, magazines and online sites, in addition to publishing eighteen short stories in journals and anthologies; in 1998 he was a Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre (Western Australia). His previous book was Queer Youth Suicide, Culture & Identity: Unliveable Lives? (London: Ashgate) and he has published numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. "