Titlebook: Building the WNBA; From "Dunking Divas" Georgia Munro-Cook Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licen

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,“It’s My Job”: Building a Professional League,leagues. Though the WNBA has tried to mirror the professionalism of the NBA, it often falls significantly short, particularly in terms of the quality of training and facilities, accommodation, and travel. The result is a situation where players experience some of the trappings of professionalism, bu

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Conclusion,e to the explicitly political actions of WNBA players today. It emphasises the argument made throughout the book: that the renewed optimism surrounding the WNBA is largely a result of the continuing demands by the players for better—better facilities, better pay, better marketing, a better, more pro

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2522-0330 scape that is otherwise hostile to women. .As such, It will be of interest to academics and students working or studying in the fields of sports sociology, sports management, feminist theory, sports history, and gender studies..978-3-031-53116-3978-3-031-53114-9Series ISSN 2522-0330 Series E-ISSN 2522-0349

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91935-9 thinkers. Finally, I will outline and justify my methodology, which includes ethnographic research with a WNBA team, media and literary analysis—particularly of the players’ own construction of their mediated self, including autobiographical texts—and archival research.

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Komplexe Zahlen und Funktionen, these embodied restrictions should also include race and gender presentation, arguing that bodies like Griner’s “misfit” in certain locations, and that there is a need to consider the body as an assemblage. This chapter does emphasise the possibilities for embodied pleasure that physical sports lik

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Komplexe Zahlen und Funktionen, professional league and the gendered power dynamics work rhizomatically through the players’ bodies. Furthermore, this chapter contends that to make a living, players often need to play overseas in the off-season, as the inability of the WNBA to provide a year-round, sufficient income, means player

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Fehler- und Ausgleichsrechnung,nd misogyny to argue that these responses are part of a larger mobilisation of misogyny that includes a lack of investment in women’s sport. The league has had difficulty in landing on a marketing strategy to combat this, particularly in contrast to other sportswomen, such as soccer players, who mor