The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and SportHow 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. |
Contents
Sports Sex | 3 |
Gender and Sexual Mythologies | 4 |
Jock Culture | 5 |
Sports Rape | 6 |
Homosocial Desire | 9 |
Homosexual Outing | 12 |
Heterosexual Outing | 13 |
Metro Sex | 18 |
The AllAmerican Metrosexual | 98 |
Undie Trouble | 100 |
Resistance to Metrosexuality | 105 |
Metrosexual Undies | 107 |
What Do Undies Reveal? | 113 |
Black Bodies | 118 |
The African American Aesthetic | 121 |
Pimped Out Bodies | 123 |
Dandies | 21 |
Playboys | 24 |
Feminine Side | 26 |
Backlash | 32 |
Part Two | 37 |
New York | 39 |
GQ | 40 |
Ralph Lauren and His Models | 43 |
Protometrosexuality | 45 |
Fashion Photographs of Athletes | 48 |
Armani | 53 |
Armanis Stellar American Athletes | 54 |
Armanis Superstars in Europe | 61 |
The Great Masculine Renunciation | 65 |
Part Three | 85 |
Undies | 87 |
Premetrosexual Undies | 89 |
The Pioneer of the Undie Revolution | 90 |
The Modern Kouros | 94 |
Football and Basketball Favorites | 96 |
NBA Tattoos and Blingbling | 124 |
Mainstream and Transracial Pimped Out Bodies | 130 |
Fetishizing Black Bodies | 132 |
Black Bodies in Briefs | 139 |
Sporno Stars | 143 |
Sports Nudity | 145 |
The Gay Gaze | 147 |
Soccer Photo Albums | 151 |
Sports Calendars | 154 |
AF Catalogs | 156 |
Fetishizing the Exotic | 158 |
Metrosexual Masculinity | 166 |
Ian Thorpe | 173 |
David Beckham | 181 |
Beautiful Bodies | 191 |
Conclusion | 194 |
Works Cited | 199 |
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