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Managing gender : affirmative action and organizational power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sport / Jim McKay.

By: Series: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relationsPublication details: Albany: State University of New York Press, �1997Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 217 pages)ISBN:
  • 0585077851
  • 9780585077857
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • GV709.18.A8 M35 1997eb
Online resources: Summary: Article Abstract: This analysis of gender, sexuality, and power in sport evaluates how affirmative action programs for women have been implemented in sporting organizations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Based on in-depth interviews with over one hundred men and women managers and supported by colorful examples from the popular press, Managing Gender shows that affirmative action initiatives usually have been marginalized, trivialized, or incorporated into the corporate-managerial and masculinist cultures that pervade sporting organizations, the media, and the state.
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Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Library - Royal Liverpool Main Shelves Available

eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-207) and indexes. Print version record.

Article Abstract: This analysis of gender, sexuality, and power in sport evaluates how affirmative action programs for women have been implemented in sporting organizations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Based on in-depth interviews with over one hundred men and women managers and supported by colorful examples from the popular press, Managing Gender shows that affirmative action initiatives usually have been marginalized, trivialized, or incorporated into the corporate-managerial and masculinist cultures that pervade sporting organizations, the media, and the state.