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Gridiron Gourmet

Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate

By: Maria J. Veri,Rita Liberti

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Gridiron Gourmet

Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate

By: Maria J. Veri,Rita Liberti

On football weekends in the United States, thousands of fans gather in the parking lots outside of stadiums, where they park their trucks, let down the gates, and begin a pregame ritual of drinking and grilling. Tailgating, which began in the early 1900s as a quaint picnic lunch outside of the stadium, has evolved into a massive public social event with complex menus, extravagant creative fare, and state-of-art grilling equipment. Unlike traditional notions of the home kitchen, the blacktop is a highly masculine culinary environment in which men and the food they cook are often the star attractions. Gridiron Gourmet examines tailgating as shown in television, film, advertising, and cookbooks, and takes a close look at the experiences of those tailgaters who are as serious about their brisket as they are about cheering on their favorite team, demonstrating how and why the gendered performances on the football field are often matched by the intensity of the masculine displays in front of grills, smokers, and deep fryers.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1682261018

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(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

By: Rita Liberti,Maureen M. Smith

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(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

By: Rita Liberti,Maureen M. Smith

Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces. With dedication and hard work, she became a gifted runner, earning a track and field scholarship to Tennessee State. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Her underdog story made her into a media darling, and she was the subject of countless articles, a television movie, children’s books, biographies, and she even featured on a U.S. postage stamp. In this work, Smith and Liberti consider not only Rudolph’s achievements, but also the ways in which those achievements are interpreted and presented as historical fact. Theories of gender, race, class, and disability collide in the story of Wilma Rudolph, and Smith and Liberti examine this collision in an effort to more fully understand how history is shaped by the cultural concerns of the present. In doing so, the authors engage with the metanarratives which define the American experience and encourage more complex and nuanced interrogations of contemporary heroic legacy.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653077

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9780815653073

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

By: Rita Lizzi Testa

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Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

By: Rita Lizzi Testa

This book brings together a number of case studies to show some of the ways in which, as soon as the Roman Senate gained new political authority under Constantine and his successors, its members crowded the political scene in the West. In these chapters, Rita Lizzi Testa makes much of her work – the fruit of decades of research –available in English for the first time. The focus is on the aristocratics' passion for aruspical science, the political use of exphrastic poems, and even their control of the hagiographic genre in the late sixth century. She demonstrates how Roman senators were chosen as legates to establish proactive relations with Christian emperors, their ministers and military commanders, and Eastern and Western provincial elites. Senators wove a web of relations in the Eastern and Western empires, sewing and stitching the empire's fabric with their diplomatic skills, wealth, and influence, while lively and highly litigious assembly activity still required of them a cultured rhetoric. Through employing astute political strategies, they maintained their privileges, including their own beliefs in ancient cults. Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity provides a crucial collection for students and scholars of Late Antique history and religion, and of politics in the Late Roman Empire.

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Routledge

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1000591239

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9781000591231

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

By: Rita Liberti,Maureen M. Smith

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By: Rita Liberti,Maureen M. Smith

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Gridiron Gourmet

Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate

By: Maria J. Veri,Rita Liberti

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Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate

By: Maria J. Veri,Rita Liberti

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University of Arkansas Press

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Gridiron Gourmet

Gridiron Gourmet

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

Gridiron Gourmet

Gridiron Gourmet

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