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Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

H. Lenskyj

H. Lenskyj. Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry Helen Jefferson Lenskyj University of Toronto, Canada © Helen Jefferson Lenskyj 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover. DOI: 10.1057/9781137291158 Title.
Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows

Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows

H. Lenskyj

No More Rainbows H. Lenskyj. Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows Helen Jefferson Lenskyj ProfessorEmerita,University of Toronto,Canada © Helen Jefferson Lenskyj 2014 All rights reserved. No reproduction,
Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism

Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism

Helen Lenskyj

Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism

Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and ...

Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and ...

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.
Best Olympics Ever?, The: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000

Best Olympics Ever?, The: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.
Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows

Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows

H. Lenskyj

This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver ...

Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver ...

Jules Boykoff

Carrington,Race, Sport, and Politics, 7. Alan Tomlinson, “The Making—and Unmaking?—ofthe Olympic Corporate Class,” in The Palgrave Handbook ofOlympic Studies, ed. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg, 233–247 ( Basingstoke, ...
National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture, ...

National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture, ...

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Paradoxes of Youth and Sport Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impacts ofSydney 2000 Anne Bolin and Jane Granskog (eds.), Athletic Intruders; Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise Ralph C.
The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000

The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000

Helen Lenskyj

The second case involved a UNSW lecturer, Cathy Sherry, who wrote a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald editor, in which she was critical of the federal government's record on native title settlements. A federal member of Parliament ...
The London Olympics of 2012: Politics, Promises and Legacy

The London Olympics of 2012: Politics, Promises and Legacy

Stephen Wagg

5 Rick Gruneau and Robert Neubauer, 'A gold medal for the market: the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Reagan era and the politics of neoliberalism', in Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic ...

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