The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and Sport
by Coad, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-06-10
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary
How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping for men's underwear ads? Besides sport, what do Pat Riley, Alex Rodriguez, and Ian Thorpe have in common? And why has David Beckham been compared to Louis XIV?
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Sports Sex | p. 3 |
| Gender and Sexual Mythologies | p. 4 |
| Jock culture | p. 5 |
| Sports Rape | p. 6 |
| Homosocial Desire | p. 9 |
| Homosexual Outing | p. 12 |
| Heterosexual Outing | p. 13 |
| Metro Sex | p. 18 |
| Mirror Men | p. 18 |
| Dandies | p. 21 |
| Playboys | p. 24 |
| Feminine Side | p. 26 |
| Backlash | p. 32 |
| New York | p. 39 |
| GQ | p. 40 |
| Ralph Lauren and His Models | p. 43 |
| Protometrosexuality | p. 45 |
| Fashion Photographs of Athletes | p. 48 |
| Armani | p. 53 |
| Armani's Stellar American Athletes | p. 54 |
| Armani's Superstars in Europe | p. 61 |
| The Great Masculine Renunciation | p. 65 |
| Undies | p. 87 |
| Premetrosexual Undies | p. 89 |
| The Pioneer of the Undie Revolution | p. 90 |
| The Modern Kouros | p. 94 |
| Football and Basketball Favorites | p. 96 |
| The All-American Metrosexual | p. 98 |
| Undie Trouble | p. 100 |
| Resistance to Metrosexuality | p. 105 |
| Metrosexual Undies | p. 107 |
| What Do Undies Reveal? | p. 113 |
| Black Bodies | p. 118 |
| The African American Aesthetic | p. 121 |
| Pimped Out Bodies | p. 123 |
| NBA Tattoos and Bling-bling | p. 124 |
| Mainstream and Transracial Pimped Out Bodies | p. 130 |
| Fetishizing Black Bodies | p. 132 |
| Black Bodies in Briefs | p. 139 |
| Sporno Stars | p. 143 |
| Sports Nudity | p. 145 |
| The Gay Gaze | p. 147 |
| Soccer Photo Albums | p. 151 |
| Sports Calendars | p. 154 |
| A&F Catalogs | p. 156 |
| Fetishizing the Exotic | p. 158 |
| Metrosexual Masculinity | p. 166 |
| Joe Namath | p. 166 |
| Ian Thorpe | p. 173 |
| David Beckham | p. 181 |
| Beautiful Bodies | p. 191 |
| Conclusion | p. 194 |
| Works Cited | p. 199 |
| Index | p. 209 |
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