Authors: Eric Anderson
ISBN-13: 9780791465349, ISBN-10: 0791465349
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Using interviews with openly gay and closeted teamsport athletes, Eric Anderson examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport, how gay male athletes navigate this, and how American masculinity is changing. By detailing individual experiences, Anderson shows how these athletes are emerging from their athletic closets and contesting the dominant norms of masculinity. From the locker rooms of high school sports, where the atmosphere of "don't ask, don't tell" often exists, to the unique circumstances that gay athletes encounter in professional team sports, this book analyzes the agency that openly gay athletes possess to change their environments.
Author Biography: Eric Anderson is Lecturer on Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York and the author of Trailblazing: The True Story of America's First Openly Gay Track Coach.
1 | Warming up | 13 |
2 | Sport, masculinity, and hegemonic oppression | 19 |
3 | The relationship between gay athletes and sport | 39 |
4 | Systems of masculine reproduction | 61 |
5 | Coming out in sport | 77 |
6 | Mitigating gay stigma | 97 |
7 | Don't ask, don't tell : resisting a culture of gay athleticism | 109 |
8 | Factors that influence acceptance | 119 |
9 | The center of masculine production : gay athletes in professional sports | 135 |
10 | Doing something about it | 159 |