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Tables of Contents for Sportcult
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
VII
Fielding Sport: A Preface to Politics?
1
13
Randy Martin
Toby Miller
Competing Allegories
14
27
Toby Miller
Part I. Building Nations
41
76
Kung Fu Cinema, Frugality, and Tanzanian Asian Youth Culture: Ujamaa and Tanzanian Youth in the Seventies
41
23
May Joseph
The Nation in White: Cricket in a Postapartheid South Africa
64
25
Grant Farred
Batting against the Break: On Cricket, Nationalism, and the Swashbuckling Sri Lankans
89
28
Qadri Ismail
Part II. Building Bodies
117
74
The Composite Body: Hip-Hop Aerobics and the Multicultural Nation
117
15
Randy Martin
Aerobics and Feminism: Self-Determination or Patriarchal Hegemony?
132
19
Michael Real
Building a Better Body: Male Bodybuilding, Spectacle, and Consumption
151
22
Jon Stratton
On Mexican Pro Wrestling: Sport as Melodrama
173
18
Heather Levi
Part III. Buying and Selling Nations and Bodies
191
52
Field of Soaps: Rupert v. Kerry as Masculine Melodrama
191
20
David Rowe
Jim McKay
Cultural Links: An International Political Economy of Golf Course Landscapes
211
16
Bradley S. Klein
Talking Trash: Late Capitalism, Black (Re) Productivity, and Professional Basketball
227
16
Gitanjali Maharaj
Part IV. Signifying Sport
243
46
Head Fake: Mentorship and Mobility in Hoop Dreams
243
10
Bruce Robbins
Back-Page Bylines: Newspapers, Women, and Sport An Interview with Liz Kahn, Mary Jollimore, and Wanda Jamrozik
253
9
Amanda Smith
Sports Trademarks and Somatic Politics: Locating the Law in a Critical Cultural Studies
262
27
Rosemary J. Coombe
Contributors
289
4
Permissions
293