Paralympic masculinities: Media and self-representation of athletes at the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games

This study uses content analysis of newspaper articles and athlete biographical/autobiographical sources to examine the constructions of masculinity of male and female athletes at the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games in Beijing, China. Based on the socially constructed tension between disability and mas...

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Main Author: Stevenson, Dale A
Other Authors: Hansen, Nancy (Disability Studies)
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3973