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How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping for men's underwear ads? Besides sport, what do Pat Riley, Alex Rodriguez, and Ian Thorpe have in common? And why has David Beckham been compared to Louis XIV?

In this fascinating exploration of past and present celebrity athletes, David Coad shows how gender roles for men are undergoing a revolutionary change. Once famous for their lack of style off the field, professional players are now fashion-conscious trendsetters. Looking at certain stellar sports figures of the past, such as Joe Namath and Jim Palmer, who were at the vanguard of reinterpreting gender roles, Coad goes on to examine their primped out and "pimped out" contemporary successors—those athletic peacocks in their furs, silks, and diamonds who embody metrosexuality, widen its focus, and demonstrate the range of experiences open to today's male.
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Part One

1. Sports Sex

Gender and Sexual Mythologies
Jock culture
Sports Rape
Homosocial Desire
Homosexual Outing
Heterosexual Outing

2. Metro Sex

Mirror Men
Dandies
Playboys
Feminine Side
Backlash

Part Two

3. New York

GQ
Ralph Lauren and His Models
Protometrosexuality
Fashion Photographs of Athletes

4. Armani

Armani's Stellar American Athletes
Armani's Superstars in Europe
The Great Masculine Renunciation

Part Three

5. Undies

Premetrosexual Undies
The Pioneer of the Undie Revolution
The Modern Kouros
Football and Basketball Favorites
The All-American Metrosexual
Undie Trouble
Resistance to Metrosexuality
Metrosexual Undies
What Do Undies Reveal?

6. Black Bodies

The African American Aesthetic
Pimped Out Bodies
NBA Tattoos and Bling-bling
Mainstream and Transracial Pimped Out Bodies
Fetishizing Black Bodies
Black Bodies in Briefs

7. Sporno Stars

Sports Nudity
The Gay Gaze
Soccer Photo Albums
Sports Calendars
A&F Catalogs
Fetishizing the Exotic

8. Metrosexual Masculinity

Joe Namath
Ian Thorpe
David Beckham
Beautiful Bodies

Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

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Sport

Autres sports

Sexualité

sexualité

Sexualité

Gender studies

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	07 février 2014
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9780791478417
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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T H E M E T R O S E X U A L

SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

CL Cole and Michael A. Messner, editors

Metrosexual the GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SPORT l D AV I D C O A D

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coad, David, 1958-The metrosexual : gender, sexuality, and sport / David Coad. p. cm.—(SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations ; 283) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978–0-7914–7409–9 (hardcover : alk. paper)— isbn978–0-7914–7410–5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sports—Sociological aspects. 2. Sports—Social aspects. 3. Masculinity in sports. 4. Gender identity. I. Title gv706.5.c582008 306.4'83—dc22 2007035438

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Contents

Part One

Sports Sex Gender and Sexual Mythologies Jock culture 5 Sports Rape 6 Homosocial Desire 9 Homosexual Outing 12 Heterosexual Outing 13

Metro Sex Mirror Men 18 Dandies 21 Playboys 24 Feminine Side 26 Backlash 32

Part Two

New York GQ4o Ralph Lauren and His Models 4 Protometrosexuality 45 Fashion Photographs of Athletes

Armani Armani’s Stellar American Athletes 54 Armani’s Superstars in Europe 61 The Great Masculine Renunciation 65

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The Metrosexual

Part Three

Undies Premetrosexual Undies 89 The Pioneer of the Undie Revolution The Modern Kouros 94 Football and Basketball Favorites 96 The All-American Metrosexual 98 Undie Trouble 100 Resistance to Metrosexuality 105 Metrosexual Undies 107 What Do Undies Reveal? 113

Black Bodies The African American Aesthetic 121 Pimped Out Bodies 123 NBA Tattoos and Bling-bling 124 Mainstream and Transracial Pimped Out Bodies 130 Fetishizing Black Bodies 132 Black Bodies in Briefs 139

Sporno Stars Sports Nudity 145 The Gay Gaze 147 Soccer Photo Albums 151 Sports Calendars 154 A&F Catalogs 156 Fetishizing the Exotic 158

Metrosexual Masculinity Joe Namath 166 Ian Thorpe 173 David Beckham 181 Beautiful Bodies 191

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Michael Hollington for a discussion on metro-sexuality at a conference in Portugal, David Halperin for his interest and kind assistance, and those who offered helpful remarks on draft work, especially Andrew Leverton, Michael O’Rourke, and William Dow. I express a special note of gratitude to John Chandler, who closely followed the text as it progressed into its present form. I would also like to thank Mark Simpson for his comments on my work and an anonymous reader for the State University of New York Press, who offered pertinent and useful advice. James Bennett, Louise Catchpole, Momin Rahman, and Eithne Quinn kindly as-sisted in research, and I am grateful to Carmel Bond and Stephen Bond. For permission to reproduce photographic material, the au-thor would like to gratefully thank: aussieBum International, Getty Images, Timothy Greenﬁeld-Sanders, HOM, Karim Ramzi, Ali Mah-davi, Millivres Prowler Group andGay Times(www.gay times.co .uk), and Triumph International.

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