@article{ref1,
title="Girlfight and Bend it Like Beckham: screening women, sport, and sexuality",
journal="Journal of lesbian studies",
year="2009",
author="Caudwell, Jayne",
volume="13",
number="3",
pages="255-271",
abstract="In this article, sport film is taken as a social and cultural space where women's bodies are made publicly in/visible. Two films-Girlfight and Bend it Like Beckham-provide the focus for critical discussion. Moreover, a queer-feminist analysis explores the links between participation in boxing and football (soccer), and women's sexuality as represented in the films. Lesbian sexualities are considered in a critique of the erasure of the lesbian sport [film] star. Sexual subjectivity is also discussed in relation to the heterosexual heroic and to patriarchy. In this way I interrogate heterosexuality. I also consider links between ethnicity, women's bodies, and sexuality. In the final instance, I show that the films work to reproduce heterosexual hegemony and depict heteronormative assimilation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1089-4160",
doi="10.1080/10894160902876697",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160902876697"
}