Transnational sport : gender, media, and global Korea /

Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joo, Rachael Miyung, 1975-
Corporate Author: Duke gender collection
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • To be a global player : sport and Korean developmental nationalisms
  • A leveraged playing field : U.S. multiculturalism and Korean athletes
  • Playing hard ball : the athletic body and Korean/American masculinities
  • Traveling Korean ladies : neoliberalism and the female athlete
  • Nation love : the feminized crowds of the Korean world cup
  • Home field advantage : race, nation, and transnational media sport in Los Angeles' Koreatown
  • Generations connect : discourses of generation and the emergence of transnational youth cultures
  • The field of sport and politics.