TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKay,Jim
TI  - Managing gender: affirmative action and organizational power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sport 
T2  - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
SN  - 0585077851
AV  - GV709.18.A8 M35 1997eb
U1  - 353.53/082 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Sports for women
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Australia
KW  - Canada
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Sex discrimination in sports
KW  - Affirmative action programs
KW  - Sports f�eminins
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Australie
KW  - Nouvelle-Z�elande
KW  - Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports
KW  - Programmes d'action positive
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Affairs & Administration
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-207) and indexes; 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Framework -- 3. The Corporate-Managerial State, Gender, and Sport -- 4. Structures of Labor, Power, and Cathexis -- 5. "Doing" Affirmative Action -- 6. The Write Stuff? Media Representations of Affirmative Action in Australian Sport -- 7. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Gender Politics of Affirmative Action Policy Research -- 8. One Cheer for Affirmative Action -- App. 1. Organizational Affiliations of Interviewees -- App. 2. Questionnaire on the Status of Women Sport Executives -- App. 3. Quantitative Summaries of Australian Respondents' Perceptions of Their Organizations
N2  - 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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