Feminizing Olympic reality: Preliminary dispatches from Baudrillard's Atlanta

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-18

  Andrews, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Baudrillard; gender; media; Olympics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002981444     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/101269098033001001     Document Type: Article

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