HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Commodification, Corporatization, Avery Bradley
4 Apr 2017
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Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty, kinetic beauty . Its about human beings" reconciliation with the fact of having a body . Few of us talk about this beauty, especially in men"s sports. Examples of athletes who demonstrate beauty: - rodger federer. Part a: answer one of four essay questions. Spend no more than 70 minutes on this essay. 4 major themes the essay will be based on: gender. How gender effect: participation, clubs, audience, inclusion, examples, ads, physical education, Role of the nation state in sport. Sport is central to consumer culture and the way women and men are constructed. Gender politics = athletes making more money based off of gender. Imperial process, the way sport was used as a vector. Part b: (10% x6): identify and explain the significance (for the social history of sport) of six out of the nine terms.
