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04489aam a2200505 i 4500 001 549CDF7AE29111EE957C5EC330ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240315010030 008 221216s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022059257 020 $a 147988538X 020 $a 9781479885381 020 $a 1479882224 020 $a 9781479882229 035 $a (OCoLC)1355222736 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d KLG $d YDX $d IBI $d OCLCO $d JHE $d HF9 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GV709 $b .M36 2023 082 00 $a 796.082 $2 23/eng/20221216 100 1 $a Manno, Michelle J., $e author. 245 10 $a Denied : $b women, sports, and the contradictions of identity / $c Michelle J. Manno. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xv, 221 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "We should get you skirts" : The complex web of gender, sexuality, and race -- "Don't be so blunt with it" : The racialized policing of gender and sexuality -- "Everybody knows that one" : Racialized lesbian stereotyping and the dyke discourse -- "Not a lot of leading ladies have muscles" : The cultural contradiction of woman athlete -- "We don't want you looking all beat up" : Gender strategies of women athletes. 520 $a "Denied offers a court side seat into the ways race, gender, and sexuality shape the experiences of elite women athletes"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a A courtside view of how women athletes' identities are policed, on and off the court. Womenâs college basketball is big business -- top teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Womenâs NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and race -- expectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or "look like men," and they are not supposed to be queer. A former college athlete herself, Michelle J. Manno spent a full season with a highly competitive NCAA Division I womenâs basketball program as one of the teamâs managers. In vivid detail, she takes us on the court, on the team bus, into the locker room, and to championship games to show the intense dedication that these women give to the game. She found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that these extremely talented women were strictly policed around the presentation of their gender and sexuality, especially the athletes who were Black. They were routinely monitored, banned from engaging in certain activities, and often punished for behavior that put their queerness, Blackness, and masculinity on display. Convincingly conforming to conventional expectations of gender and sexuality -- from the clothes they wore to the people they dated -- was yet another challenge at which they needed to excel. Importantly, Manno also highlights several well-known contemporary professional athletes -- Brittney Griner, Serena Williams, Gabby Douglas, and Caster Semenya, among others -- to show that fame and performing at the highest levels in sport does not protect women athletes from having to navigate the conflicting and often contradictory expectations of identity. A riveting portrait of an elite basketball program, Denied will forever change our understanding of women athletes and the sports they play. -- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women athletes $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Sports $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination in sports. 650 0 $a Racism in sports. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities and sports. 650 6 $a Sportives $x Conditions sociales. 650 6 $a Sports $x Aspect social. 650 6 $a Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports. 650 6 $a Racisme dans les sports. 650 7 $a Racism in sports $2 fast 650 7 $a Sex discrimination in sports $2 fast 650 7 $a Sexual minorities and sports $2 fast 650 7 $a Sports $x Social aspects $2 fast 650 7 $a Women athletes $x Social conditions $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240315010114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=549CDF7AE29111EE957C5EC330ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search