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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 515–543.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Mary Louise Adams In popular and professional discourses about effeminacy or sissyness, boys' feelings about sport and their actual athletic abilities have been represented both as symptoms of gender deviance and as targets for clinical intervention. The assumption has been that knowing something...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 325–357.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., this article argues that there is a pattern in host cities of such events in which neoliberal agents, state forces, and nongovernmental organizations use discourses of feminism and human rights—especially unfounded fears about a link between sex trafficking and sports—to enact such changes regardless...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 435–463.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Erica Rand “Court and Sparkle” looks at effects, ideas, and diversions in discourses around gender authenticity in sport through two 2010 controversies. One involved Kye Allums, who came out as transgender right before his third season playing NCAA Division I basketball for George Washington...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (3): 353–385.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Diego Galdo-González The Ball of La Laguna was an infamous cross‐dressing ball that ended in a police raid, media scandal, and public uproar on the night of January 31, 1959, in Lima, Peru. Hundreds of maricón (queer) couples attended the ball sporting masculine and feminine attire — unaware...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 419–433.
Published: 01 October 2013
... in women’s sports that year. Her victory capped an incredible season in which her personal best improved from race to race. When she powered past her opponents, it looked as if she were built of differ- ent stuff — as it does in a race that is not close. Such an increase in a man’s...
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GLQ (1998) 4 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 January 1998
... Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 ANNOUNCEMENTS Amsterdam, 29–31 July 1998. Queer Games? Theories, Politics, Sports. In August 1998 the city of Amsterdam will host the fifth Gay Games. On the eve of this event the Departments of Lesbian and Gay Studies of the Universities...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 444–446.
Published: 01 June 2015
... on and off the Ice analyzes these types of contradictions; the pleasure and joy in physical ability that come with figure skating alongside the politics of accessibility and discrimi- nation that plague the sport. Red Nails, Black Skates is a personal examination...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 109–136.
Published: 01 January 2016
... texts of Gopinath’s methodological milieu of musical genres, film, video, or novels, I read the city and the lived experiences of les who map their vision of community onto the sidewalk cafés, stages, and sports fields beneath their feet. My work here does not differ from Denise Tang’s framing...
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GLQ (1994) 1 (2): 111–133.
Published: 01 April 1994
... Dichotomy.” The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1989 . 118 -40. Pinky. Dir. Elia Kazan. Twentieth-Century Fox , 1949 . Pronger , Brian . The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex . New York: St. Martin's...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 591–596.
Published: 01 October 2013
... 2013 About the Contributors Mary Louise Adams is professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and in cultural studies at Queen’s University. She is the author of Artistic Impres- sions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport (2011) and The Trouble...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2013
... and to the purity of athletic competition; media coverage at the time concentrated almost entirely on anabolic steroids’ relation- ship to sports. Near the end of the final hearing, however, a statement submit- ted by Ronald Chesemore of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggests a broader concern...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 153–169.
Published: 01 January 2009
...- garden brings these to the discussion not because she anticipates the cultural cri- tique of animal theorists, namely, that focusing on mammals presents a distorted view of life across species, but more practically because these animals (especially the fishes) sport a range...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (2): 369–370.
Published: 01 April 2001
... forthcoming book, Dissenting Ascents: Women’s Moun- taineering after the Patriarchy, carries previous preoccupations with feminist psy- choanalysis, modernism and modernity, and queer theory into documentary inves- tigations of an unexplored subculture of extreme sport...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 487–514.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., and histories. More specifically, their ambition to performatively concretize the long-­ standing and widespread “fantasy of hybridization” between horse and human sits at a more contemporary point of confluence between athletics and sports culture, biomedical science, and the regulative norms of sex...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (4): 569–604.
Published: 01 October 2016
... carnivalesque cultural economies, young sports culture offers an explicit case of antistate organization. Egyptian soccer (football) fan clubs have emerged since the late 1990s as a unique form of collective orga- nization and coordination among children and teenagers. These well...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (3): 419–421.
Published: 01 June 2023
... systematically prevented from accessing affirming medical care and participating in sports, the racial and economic violence that stratifies health care, education, and access to organized extracurricular spaces of play and belonging will persist. The horizon of trans justice must not be limited to the rollback...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 343–346.
Published: 01 June 2024
... not as a stage of inchoate masculine prowess but as time spent in the kitchen with Black women, or poring through academic books, or negotiating abusive fathers. On the other hand, the final chapter “Gay but Not Sissy” tracks the ways in which gay men in sports asserted a claim to power by disavowing the figure...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (4): 701–722.
Published: 01 October 2020
... David . 2007 . “ Ultimate Fighting: The Final Frontier .” Guardian , September 29 . www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/sep/30/features.sport4 . Nadel Ira B. 2011 . “ Boxing with Brecht: David Mamet and Bertolt Brecht .” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 26 , no. 1 : 103 – 24...
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GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 369–385.
Published: 01 June 2007
... a scene of Candy enticing a boy. We hear two sportscasters narrating the scene as if giving the play-by-play of a college football game, from “Good morning fellow sports fans” to “Round one to Candy.” If the attempt is grim humor, it drowns in its own glib self-righteousness, but this gro- tesque...
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GLQ (2002) 8 (1-2): 35–55.
Published: 01 April 2002
... is its cafés and restaurants, located on the beach just a few meters from the water. The long chain of bars, cafés, and taverns painted in different colors—red, blue, green, lavender—is broken only by Skala Eresos’s main square. At the end of this long chain one finds the water sports pavilion, which...