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Out Of Bounds: The Bodies, Borders, And Voices Of Female Athletes, Scarlett Leigh Hester
Out Of Bounds: The Bodies, Borders, And Voices Of Female Athletes, Scarlett Leigh Hester
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Professional sports and sports culture permeate almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. By its very nature, sports culture focuses on the bodies and perfomances of athletes. While this is a natural result, the taken-for-granted norms of professional sports culture priviliges cisgendered, White, heteronormative bodies. This study investigates how professional sports culture operates as an apparatus of discipline that is inundated in notions of whiteness. Through the case studies of UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, tennis champion Serena Williams, and WNBA star Brittney Griner, this study exposes the modes of discipline that are deployed by professional sports culture and the impact …