Erik N. Jensen
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195395648
- eISBN:
- 9780199866564
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395648.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, European Modern History
Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post‐World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and ...
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Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post‐World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day. Athletes in the 1920s took the same techniques that were streamlining factories and offices and applied them to maximizing the efficiency of their own flesh and bones. Sportswomen and men embodied modernity — quite literally — in all of its competitive, time‐oriented excess and thereby helped to popularize, and even to naturalize, the sometimes threatening process of economic rationalization by linking it to their own personal success stories. Enthroned by the media as the new cultural icons, athletes radiated sexual empowerment, social mobility, and self‐determination. Champions in tennis, boxing, and track and field showed their fans how to be “modern,” and, in the process, sparked heated debates over the limits of the physical body, the obligations of citizens to the state, and the relationship between the sexes. If the images and debates in this book strike readers as familiar, it might well be because the ideal body of today — sleek, efficient, and equally available to men and women — received its first articulation in the fertile tumult of Germany's roaring twenties. After more than eighty years, we still want the Weimar body.Less
Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post‐World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day. Athletes in the 1920s took the same techniques that were streamlining factories and offices and applied them to maximizing the efficiency of their own flesh and bones. Sportswomen and men embodied modernity — quite literally — in all of its competitive, time‐oriented excess and thereby helped to popularize, and even to naturalize, the sometimes threatening process of economic rationalization by linking it to their own personal success stories. Enthroned by the media as the new cultural icons, athletes radiated sexual empowerment, social mobility, and self‐determination. Champions in tennis, boxing, and track and field showed their fans how to be “modern,” and, in the process, sparked heated debates over the limits of the physical body, the obligations of citizens to the state, and the relationship between the sexes. If the images and debates in this book strike readers as familiar, it might well be because the ideal body of today — sleek, efficient, and equally available to men and women — received its first articulation in the fertile tumult of Germany's roaring twenties. After more than eighty years, we still want the Weimar body.
Charlotte Greenspan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195111101
- eISBN:
- 9780199865703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195111101.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter focuses on Dorothy's adolescent years. Dorothy's teen years were spent as an upper-middle-class young lady. She received piano lessons. She probably received tennis lessons—or at least ...
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This chapter focuses on Dorothy's adolescent years. Dorothy's teen years were spent as an upper-middle-class young lady. She received piano lessons. She probably received tennis lessons—or at least she learned to play tennis, a sport she enjoyed on both coasts. A naturally athletic young woman, she swam and occasionally played golf. In high school, she won a basketball prize. Dorothy knew women who had performed in shows produced by her father and who had had successful acting careers. But it is hard to say if a close knowledge of these actresses would have inspired or discouraged her. Although vivacious and attractive, with alluring dark brown eyes, Dorothy was not showgirl pretty. The strength of her features, the pronounced nose and lips, were not the rosebud ideal of feminine beauty of the time. If Dorothy compared herself to the actresses she knew in terms of talent and physical attributes, it is hard to guess what conclusions she might have drawn. Even as a teenager, she seemed to see herself more in character roles, frequently male, than in ingénue parts.Less
This chapter focuses on Dorothy's adolescent years. Dorothy's teen years were spent as an upper-middle-class young lady. She received piano lessons. She probably received tennis lessons—or at least she learned to play tennis, a sport she enjoyed on both coasts. A naturally athletic young woman, she swam and occasionally played golf. In high school, she won a basketball prize. Dorothy knew women who had performed in shows produced by her father and who had had successful acting careers. But it is hard to say if a close knowledge of these actresses would have inspired or discouraged her. Although vivacious and attractive, with alluring dark brown eyes, Dorothy was not showgirl pretty. The strength of her features, the pronounced nose and lips, were not the rosebud ideal of feminine beauty of the time. If Dorothy compared herself to the actresses she knew in terms of talent and physical attributes, it is hard to guess what conclusions she might have drawn. Even as a teenager, she seemed to see herself more in character roles, frequently male, than in ingénue parts.
Erik N. Jensen
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195395648
- eISBN:
- 9780199866564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395648.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, European Modern History
Tennis players in the 1920s expressed an unabashed sexuality and visible pursuit of fine living that appeared liberating to many Germans after the years of wartime and postwar austerity. Male players ...
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Tennis players in the 1920s expressed an unabashed sexuality and visible pursuit of fine living that appeared liberating to many Germans after the years of wartime and postwar austerity. Male players lavished attention on their personal grooming, style, and romantic liaisons, in open defiance of the Prussian ideal of discipline and self‐control. Instead, they modelled an alternative masculinity around aesthetic sensibility and self‐indulgence. Female players, meanwhile, projected a new aggressivity in matters financial and sexual, as well as athletic. Some top players even flouted the sport's amateur imperative by turning professional, pioneering the use of sports as an avenue of upward mobility, and modelling the possibilities of the “self‐made woman.”Less
Tennis players in the 1920s expressed an unabashed sexuality and visible pursuit of fine living that appeared liberating to many Germans after the years of wartime and postwar austerity. Male players lavished attention on their personal grooming, style, and romantic liaisons, in open defiance of the Prussian ideal of discipline and self‐control. Instead, they modelled an alternative masculinity around aesthetic sensibility and self‐indulgence. Female players, meanwhile, projected a new aggressivity in matters financial and sexual, as well as athletic. Some top players even flouted the sport's amateur imperative by turning professional, pioneering the use of sports as an avenue of upward mobility, and modelling the possibilities of the “self‐made woman.”
Lauren Shohet
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199295890
- eISBN:
- 9780191594311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295890.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Chapter 5 traces masques' representations of political alternatives throughout the seventeenth century, masques' prominently varied epistemological investments, and their deployment in creating an ...
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Chapter 5 traces masques' representations of political alternatives throughout the seventeenth century, masques' prominently varied epistemological investments, and their deployment in creating an adaptive theatrical history that spans the full century. Self‐consciously inheriting both the elite dramatic tradition of the court masque and more popular traditions associated with other kinds of masquing, the seventeenth‐century masque engages multiple aspects of public culture. Case studies in masques that taxonomize political alternatives include Campion's royal Caversham entertainment, Middleton and Rowley's public The World Tossed at Tennis, Thomas Jordan's Interregnum Fancy's Festivals, and Anthony Sadler's Restoration Subjects Joy. Case studies exploring how masque sponsors epistemological reflection include Milton's Ludlow masque Comus, Kynaston's Corona Minervae, Nabbes's Microcosmus, and John Sadler's Mascarade du ciel. The chapter closes by tracing how masques, and masque adaptations of earlier plays, attempt to construct an account of English theater across the Stuart, Interregnum, and Restoration eras, when masques persist as a distinctively English form of early opera. Case studies here include Jonson (The Masque of Augurs), Shirley (Cupid and Death, The Triumph of Beauty), John Crown (Calisto), Davenant's Shakespearian adaptations, and Dryden (The Secular Masque).Less
Chapter 5 traces masques' representations of political alternatives throughout the seventeenth century, masques' prominently varied epistemological investments, and their deployment in creating an adaptive theatrical history that spans the full century. Self‐consciously inheriting both the elite dramatic tradition of the court masque and more popular traditions associated with other kinds of masquing, the seventeenth‐century masque engages multiple aspects of public culture. Case studies in masques that taxonomize political alternatives include Campion's royal Caversham entertainment, Middleton and Rowley's public The World Tossed at Tennis, Thomas Jordan's Interregnum Fancy's Festivals, and Anthony Sadler's Restoration Subjects Joy. Case studies exploring how masque sponsors epistemological reflection include Milton's Ludlow masque Comus, Kynaston's Corona Minervae, Nabbes's Microcosmus, and John Sadler's Mascarade du ciel. The chapter closes by tracing how masques, and masque adaptations of earlier plays, attempt to construct an account of English theater across the Stuart, Interregnum, and Restoration eras, when masques persist as a distinctively English form of early opera. Case studies here include Jonson (The Masque of Augurs), Shirley (Cupid and Death, The Triumph of Beauty), John Crown (Calisto), Davenant's Shakespearian adaptations, and Dryden (The Secular Masque).
Gwen Terry
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268463
- eISBN:
- 9780520949782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268463.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter describes Clark Terry's association with Feather, a prostitute who described him as her “tennis shoe pimp because he didn't beat her,” and he also talks about his gigs at the Grenada. It ...
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This chapter describes Clark Terry's association with Feather, a prostitute who described him as her “tennis shoe pimp because he didn't beat her,” and he also talks about his gigs at the Grenada. It was in December of 1941 that Clark began gigging with Checkers' band. And it was the same time that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When it happened there was unrest all around and people were panicking and crying. The radio programs appealed to people to join the army. War was declared. It was at the gig that night that Clark played “Blue Moon”, and suddenly, the atmosphere calmed, almost being controlled by the music. This made Clark realize the undeniable power of jazz and he started to play it deeper than ever before.Less
This chapter describes Clark Terry's association with Feather, a prostitute who described him as her “tennis shoe pimp because he didn't beat her,” and he also talks about his gigs at the Grenada. It was in December of 1941 that Clark began gigging with Checkers' band. And it was the same time that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When it happened there was unrest all around and people were panicking and crying. The radio programs appealed to people to join the army. War was declared. It was at the gig that night that Clark played “Blue Moon”, and suddenly, the atmosphere calmed, almost being controlled by the music. This made Clark realize the undeniable power of jazz and he started to play it deeper than ever before.
David Maskell
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151616
- eISBN:
- 9780191672774
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151616.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
In the seventeenth century, theatres were constructed on narrow buildings primarily built for tennis; the seats were classified according to status quo, but whether they were seats for the ...
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In the seventeenth century, theatres were constructed on narrow buildings primarily built for tennis; the seats were classified according to status quo, but whether they were seats for the aristocrats or the common people, no seats offered much possibility for viewing the plays in proper perspective. This chapter begins with an overview of the structures of theatres in the seventeenth century and discusses the different factors that affected proper viewing such as the rowdy audience, seats, obstructions, and poor lighting. The chapter also discusses the misconceptions in Racine's use of stage space and scenery, including the relationship of the decor to the text of the plays. In Racinian plays, the texts of the plays are significant as they describe the decor that properly fits the plays' scenery.Less
In the seventeenth century, theatres were constructed on narrow buildings primarily built for tennis; the seats were classified according to status quo, but whether they were seats for the aristocrats or the common people, no seats offered much possibility for viewing the plays in proper perspective. This chapter begins with an overview of the structures of theatres in the seventeenth century and discusses the different factors that affected proper viewing such as the rowdy audience, seats, obstructions, and poor lighting. The chapter also discusses the misconceptions in Racine's use of stage space and scenery, including the relationship of the decor to the text of the plays. In Racinian plays, the texts of the plays are significant as they describe the decor that properly fits the plays' scenery.
Jonathan Betts
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198568025
- eISBN:
- 9780191718144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568025.003.18
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This chapter begins with a discussion of the friendship between Rupert and A. W. Stewart, author and Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast. It then details how radio broadcasting made ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the friendship between Rupert and A. W. Stewart, author and Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast. It then details how radio broadcasting made Rupert Gould a truly household name — a ‘media star’ in modern parlance — during the 1930s. Rupert Gould's lifelong interest in the rules and game of tennis was put to good use during the 1930s when he was invited, from about 1930, to umpire at several of the great Championships.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the friendship between Rupert and A. W. Stewart, author and Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast. It then details how radio broadcasting made Rupert Gould a truly household name — a ‘media star’ in modern parlance — during the 1930s. Rupert Gould's lifelong interest in the rules and game of tennis was put to good use during the 1930s when he was invited, from about 1930, to umpire at several of the great Championships.
Benjamin Scheibehenne and Arndt Bröder
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199744282
- eISBN:
- 9780199894727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744282.003.0031
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Human-Technology Interaction
The outcomes of matches in the 2005 Wimbledon Gentlemen's tennis competition were predicted by mere player name recognition. In a field study, amateur tennis players (n = 79) and laypeople (n = 105) ...
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The outcomes of matches in the 2005 Wimbledon Gentlemen's tennis competition were predicted by mere player name recognition. In a field study, amateur tennis players (n = 79) and laypeople (n = 105) indicated players' names they recognized, and predicted match outcomes. Predictions based on recognition rankings aggregated over all participants correctly predicted 70% of all matches. These recognition predictions were equal to or better than predictions based on official ATP rankings and the seedings of Wimbledon experts, while online betting odds led to more accurate forecasts. When applicable, individual amateurs and laypeople made accurate predictions by relying on individual name recognition. However, for cases in which individuals did not recognize either of the two players, their average prediction accuracy across all matches was low. The study shows that simple heuristics that rely on a few valid cues can lead to highly accurate forecasts.Less
The outcomes of matches in the 2005 Wimbledon Gentlemen's tennis competition were predicted by mere player name recognition. In a field study, amateur tennis players (n = 79) and laypeople (n = 105) indicated players' names they recognized, and predicted match outcomes. Predictions based on recognition rankings aggregated over all participants correctly predicted 70% of all matches. These recognition predictions were equal to or better than predictions based on official ATP rankings and the seedings of Wimbledon experts, while online betting odds led to more accurate forecasts. When applicable, individual amateurs and laypeople made accurate predictions by relying on individual name recognition. However, for cases in which individuals did not recognize either of the two players, their average prediction accuracy across all matches was low. The study shows that simple heuristics that rely on a few valid cues can lead to highly accurate forecasts.
Franc Klaassen and Jan R. Magnus
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199355952
- eISBN:
- 9780199395477
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199355952.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
The game of tennis raises many questions that are of interest to a statistician. Is it true that beginning to serve in a set gives an advantage? Are new balls an advantage? Is the seventh game in a ...
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The game of tennis raises many questions that are of interest to a statistician. Is it true that beginning to serve in a set gives an advantage? Are new balls an advantage? Is the seventh game in a set particularly important? Are top players more stable than other players? Do real champions win the big points? These, and many other questions, are formulated as ‘hypotheses’ and tested statistically. The book also discusses how the outcome of a match can be predicted (also while the match is in progress), which points are important and which are not, how to choose an optimal service strategy, and whether ‘winning mood’ actually exists in tennis. Aimed at readers with some knowledge of mathematics and statistics, the book uses tennis (Wimbledon in particular) as a vehicle to illustrate the power and beauty of statistical reasoning.Less
The game of tennis raises many questions that are of interest to a statistician. Is it true that beginning to serve in a set gives an advantage? Are new balls an advantage? Is the seventh game in a set particularly important? Are top players more stable than other players? Do real champions win the big points? These, and many other questions, are formulated as ‘hypotheses’ and tested statistically. The book also discusses how the outcome of a match can be predicted (also while the match is in progress), which points are important and which are not, how to choose an optimal service strategy, and whether ‘winning mood’ actually exists in tennis. Aimed at readers with some knowledge of mathematics and statistics, the book uses tennis (Wimbledon in particular) as a vehicle to illustrate the power and beauty of statistical reasoning.
DONALD SADLER
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034225
- eISBN:
- 9780813039602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034225.003.0011
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The College of William and Mary began in 1693 and followed only Harvard University as the country's first seat of higher learning. The increasing number of incoming students required that William and ...
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The College of William and Mary began in 1693 and followed only Harvard University as the country's first seat of higher learning. The increasing number of incoming students required that William and Mary adapt over time and expand upon its quaint colonial roots. Unfortunately for some, expansion meant the need for a new dormitory on the spot of one of the most popular green areas on campus, the Martha Barksdale Athletic Field. Used for multiple activities for both genders, Barksdale Field was also a great spot to hang out, catch some sun, study for that demanding class, or just people watch. The following features in this chapter include various parts of the tennis court complex discovered in the archaeological investigations at Barksdale Field. The detailed analysis of each component of the courts reveals the complexity of tennis court construction and provides insight into the early use of the women's athletic field.Less
The College of William and Mary began in 1693 and followed only Harvard University as the country's first seat of higher learning. The increasing number of incoming students required that William and Mary adapt over time and expand upon its quaint colonial roots. Unfortunately for some, expansion meant the need for a new dormitory on the spot of one of the most popular green areas on campus, the Martha Barksdale Athletic Field. Used for multiple activities for both genders, Barksdale Field was also a great spot to hang out, catch some sun, study for that demanding class, or just people watch. The following features in this chapter include various parts of the tennis court complex discovered in the archaeological investigations at Barksdale Field. The detailed analysis of each component of the courts reveals the complexity of tennis court construction and provides insight into the early use of the women's athletic field.
Susan Ware
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834541
- eISBN:
- 9781469603384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877999_ware.11
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses how the United States Tennis Association formally renamed its flagship tennis center in Flushing Meadows the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Thrilled to be the ...
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This chapter discusses how the United States Tennis Association formally renamed its flagship tennis center in Flushing Meadows the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Thrilled to be the center of adoring attention from the assembled tennis fans, King was serenaded in song by Diana Ross and praised in tributes from John McEnroe, Chris Evert, Venus Williams, and Jimmy Connors. Calling her “the single most important person in the history of women's sports,” McEnroe graciously showed the distance he had come since the Battle of the Sexes that had propelled King into the national limelight in 1973: “I was a 14-year-old male chauvinist pig when they played, hoping Riggs would kick Billie Jean King's ass. But now, as the father of four girls, I want to say for the record that I'm very happy Billie Jean won.”Less
This chapter discusses how the United States Tennis Association formally renamed its flagship tennis center in Flushing Meadows the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Thrilled to be the center of adoring attention from the assembled tennis fans, King was serenaded in song by Diana Ross and praised in tributes from John McEnroe, Chris Evert, Venus Williams, and Jimmy Connors. Calling her “the single most important person in the history of women's sports,” McEnroe graciously showed the distance he had come since the Battle of the Sexes that had propelled King into the national limelight in 1973: “I was a 14-year-old male chauvinist pig when they played, hoping Riggs would kick Billie Jean King's ass. But now, as the father of four girls, I want to say for the record that I'm very happy Billie Jean won.”
Nancy E. Spencer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496809889
- eISBN:
- 9781496809926
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter examines the athletic career of French tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen, who participated during the Golden Age of sports in the 1920s. Lenglen was one of the first female athletes to ...
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This chapter examines the athletic career of French tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen, who participated during the Golden Age of sports in the 1920s. Lenglen was one of the first female athletes to achieve worldwide recognition and acclaim for her tennis success, as well as her influence on the sport, including her fashion. Lenglen’s appeal extended beyond the tennis courts, and part of her lasting image rests on her ability to both challenge and reinforce ideas around femininity in sport during the 1920s.Less
This chapter examines the athletic career of French tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen, who participated during the Golden Age of sports in the 1920s. Lenglen was one of the first female athletes to achieve worldwide recognition and acclaim for her tennis success, as well as her influence on the sport, including her fashion. Lenglen’s appeal extended beyond the tennis courts, and part of her lasting image rests on her ability to both challenge and reinforce ideas around femininity in sport during the 1920s.
Lisa Doris Alexander and Dan Travis
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496809889
- eISBN:
- 9781496809926
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
British tennis star and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is the focus of this chapter. Born and raised in Scotland, Murray’s national identity as a British athlete is explored amid the tensions between ...
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British tennis star and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is the focus of this chapter. Born and raised in Scotland, Murray’s national identity as a British athlete is explored amid the tensions between Scottish identity within the British Empire. Murray’s slow rise to the top of tennis is examined within the pressures of the British sporting public, as well as the challenges of breaking into the sport’s toptier, dominated by Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer.Less
British tennis star and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is the focus of this chapter. Born and raised in Scotland, Murray’s national identity as a British athlete is explored amid the tensions between Scottish identity within the British Empire. Murray’s slow rise to the top of tennis is examined within the pressures of the British sporting public, as well as the challenges of breaking into the sport’s toptier, dominated by Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer.
Elizabeth O’Connell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617038136
- eISBN:
- 9781621039617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617038136.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter explores the lasting legacy of the tennis athlete Billie Jean King in advancing gender equality in sports. Her victory over Bobby Riggs in the exhibition match dubbed as the “Battle of ...
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This chapter explores the lasting legacy of the tennis athlete Billie Jean King in advancing gender equality in sports. Her victory over Bobby Riggs in the exhibition match dubbed as the “Battle of the Sexes,” vindicated the cause of the women’s movement, advancing gender equality in tennis and uplifting women’s self-esteem across the world. It adds that despite her enduring legacy, King’s reputation was often marred by questions of sexuality and the parity of prize money. It suggests that Billie Jean King should be remembered in the simplest way possible: as one of the best female players in tennis who advanced gender equality to improve the sport for all.Less
This chapter explores the lasting legacy of the tennis athlete Billie Jean King in advancing gender equality in sports. Her victory over Bobby Riggs in the exhibition match dubbed as the “Battle of the Sexes,” vindicated the cause of the women’s movement, advancing gender equality in tennis and uplifting women’s self-esteem across the world. It adds that despite her enduring legacy, King’s reputation was often marred by questions of sexuality and the parity of prize money. It suggests that Billie Jean King should be remembered in the simplest way possible: as one of the best female players in tennis who advanced gender equality to improve the sport for all.
Earl Smith and Angela J Hattery
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617038136
- eISBN:
- 9781621039617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617038136.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter explores the careers, lives, and challenges, of the tennis athletes Serena and Venus Williams. It contends that their father, Richard Williams, paved the way for their success, ...
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This chapter explores the careers, lives, and challenges, of the tennis athletes Serena and Venus Williams. It contends that their father, Richard Williams, paved the way for their success, understanding that his daughters needed to develop their tennis skills as well as the strength of character required to allow them to win in tennis and to endure the racism that would characterize their entire careers.Less
This chapter explores the careers, lives, and challenges, of the tennis athletes Serena and Venus Williams. It contends that their father, Richard Williams, paved the way for their success, understanding that his daughters needed to develop their tennis skills as well as the strength of character required to allow them to win in tennis and to endure the racism that would characterize their entire careers.
Kathleen A. Bishop
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617038136
- eISBN:
- 9781621039617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617038136.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter discusses the legacy of the rivalry between tennis players Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. It explains that their rivalry was so intense that they played each other 80 times — with ...
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This chapter discusses the legacy of the rivalry between tennis players Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. It explains that their rivalry was so intense that they played each other 80 times — with 60 matches being final matches. The differences between their backgrounds, styles, and nationalities, played out so wonderfully well that no rivalry in the entire history of sport could match theirs. It adds that after they both retired from tennis, they remained in contact and are said to be good friends.Less
This chapter discusses the legacy of the rivalry between tennis players Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. It explains that their rivalry was so intense that they played each other 80 times — with 60 matches being final matches. The differences between their backgrounds, styles, and nationalities, played out so wonderfully well that no rivalry in the entire history of sport could match theirs. It adds that after they both retired from tennis, they remained in contact and are said to be good friends.
Bernard Vere
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781784992507
- eISBN:
- 9781526136268
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992507.003.0003
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
The second chapter deals with two individual sports. Boxing and tennis might appear strange bedfellows, but as well as being primarily individual sports, they are also united by their transatlantic ...
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The second chapter deals with two individual sports. Boxing and tennis might appear strange bedfellows, but as well as being primarily individual sports, they are also united by their transatlantic nature. The flamboyant figures of boxer Jack Johnson and tennis player Suzanne Lenglen were famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Johnson lived it up in nightclubs in both Paris and London, Lenglen played host to American film stars on the French Riviera. Boxing’s Americanism is traced in the writings and life of Cravan that culminated in the fight against Johnson in Barcelona, which is then refracted through the fascination of American journal The Soil for both boxing and Cravan. Tennis was particularly associated with modernist architecture, with players featuring in books written by Le Corbusier, Adolf Behne and Sigfried Giedion. It was also a rare example of a sport where the women’s game attracted as much, if not more, attention than that of the men. This, I contend, caused problems for Le Corbusier, who preferred to concentrate on the geometrical court and the anonymous male players that he includes in his Urbanisme, rather than the glamour and fashion of Lenglen, a woman dressed by the couturier Jean Patou and who served as an inspiration for a Jean Cocteau piece for the Ballets Russes.Less
The second chapter deals with two individual sports. Boxing and tennis might appear strange bedfellows, but as well as being primarily individual sports, they are also united by their transatlantic nature. The flamboyant figures of boxer Jack Johnson and tennis player Suzanne Lenglen were famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Johnson lived it up in nightclubs in both Paris and London, Lenglen played host to American film stars on the French Riviera. Boxing’s Americanism is traced in the writings and life of Cravan that culminated in the fight against Johnson in Barcelona, which is then refracted through the fascination of American journal The Soil for both boxing and Cravan. Tennis was particularly associated with modernist architecture, with players featuring in books written by Le Corbusier, Adolf Behne and Sigfried Giedion. It was also a rare example of a sport where the women’s game attracted as much, if not more, attention than that of the men. This, I contend, caused problems for Le Corbusier, who preferred to concentrate on the geometrical court and the anonymous male players that he includes in his Urbanisme, rather than the glamour and fashion of Lenglen, a woman dressed by the couturier Jean Patou and who served as an inspiration for a Jean Cocteau piece for the Ballets Russes.
Steve Zeitlin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501702358
- eISBN:
- 9781501706370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501702358.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
In this chapter, the author looks at the poetry of Ping-Pong, his favorite sport. According to Marty Reisman, the game of Ping-Pong died in Bombay, India, in 1952. Reisman, nicknamed “The Needle,” ...
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In this chapter, the author looks at the poetry of Ping-Pong, his favorite sport. According to Marty Reisman, the game of Ping-Pong died in Bombay, India, in 1952. Reisman, nicknamed “The Needle,” was favored to win the World Table Tennis Championship that day. The author says he has always loved Ping-Pong because you can get into a rhythm, hit the ball back and forth across the net for hours, with any racquet, and simply talk. Ping-Pong, like poetry, is a players' sport, not ideal for spectators. Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, claims that there is palpable humor in the game. With Ping-Pong, the author insists that we are all capable of attuning ourselves to the hidden life of sports, a relationship that is about kinesthesia and embodiment.Less
In this chapter, the author looks at the poetry of Ping-Pong, his favorite sport. According to Marty Reisman, the game of Ping-Pong died in Bombay, India, in 1952. Reisman, nicknamed “The Needle,” was favored to win the World Table Tennis Championship that day. The author says he has always loved Ping-Pong because you can get into a rhythm, hit the ball back and forth across the net for hours, with any racquet, and simply talk. Ping-Pong, like poetry, is a players' sport, not ideal for spectators. Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, claims that there is palpable humor in the game. With Ping-Pong, the author insists that we are all capable of attuning ourselves to the hidden life of sports, a relationship that is about kinesthesia and embodiment.
Mike Zwerin
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108064
- eISBN:
- 9780300127386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108064.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter focuses on the author's interview with American tennis player Don Budge during the French Open. It explains that Budge was a jazz fan, who believed that, among the male tennis players, ...
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This chapter focuses on the author's interview with American tennis player Don Budge during the French Open. It explains that Budge was a jazz fan, who believed that, among the male tennis players, it was Charlie Parker who played like a jazz musician, because he liked to hit a rising ball. The chapter also discusses the author's opinion that it was John McEnroe who played most like a jazz musician.Less
This chapter focuses on the author's interview with American tennis player Don Budge during the French Open. It explains that Budge was a jazz fan, who believed that, among the male tennis players, it was Charlie Parker who played like a jazz musician, because he liked to hit a rising ball. The chapter also discusses the author's opinion that it was John McEnroe who played most like a jazz musician.
Daniel Jordan Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226491516
- eISBN:
- 9780226491790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226491790.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
Men’s relationships with their male peers constitute a central arena for the performance and assessment of competent masculinity. Relating appropriately with other men—in school, in the workplace, at ...
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Men’s relationships with their male peers constitute a central arena for the performance and assessment of competent masculinity. Relating appropriately with other men—in school, in the workplace, at social venues and events, in the political arena, and in the myriad spaces connected with family and community—occupies more of men’s efforts to be masculine than anything else. Men’s concerns with what their fellow men think of them animates and explains a large array of masculine behavior. While men’s relationships with other men are undoubtedly important in every society, in Nigeria the relatively gender-segregated character of social life means that men’s relationships with each other dominate their daily lives. Drawing on the author’s decades-long experience with men’s tennis clubs in southeastern Nigeria, this chapter explores the importance of money and intimacy in men’s relationships with each other, and culminates with a description and analysis of how even men’s decisions, behaviors, and representations of their extramarital sexual relationships with women are deeply influenced by their ties to other men. This intersection of heterosexuality and homosociality is central to masculinity and the meanings attached to it.Less
Men’s relationships with their male peers constitute a central arena for the performance and assessment of competent masculinity. Relating appropriately with other men—in school, in the workplace, at social venues and events, in the political arena, and in the myriad spaces connected with family and community—occupies more of men’s efforts to be masculine than anything else. Men’s concerns with what their fellow men think of them animates and explains a large array of masculine behavior. While men’s relationships with other men are undoubtedly important in every society, in Nigeria the relatively gender-segregated character of social life means that men’s relationships with each other dominate their daily lives. Drawing on the author’s decades-long experience with men’s tennis clubs in southeastern Nigeria, this chapter explores the importance of money and intimacy in men’s relationships with each other, and culminates with a description and analysis of how even men’s decisions, behaviors, and representations of their extramarital sexual relationships with women are deeply influenced by their ties to other men. This intersection of heterosexuality and homosociality is central to masculinity and the meanings attached to it.
