![]() | Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista , Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports--acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women. In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey Andrei S. Markovits is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published prolifically on German and European politics and on sports. His most recent book is Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture . Emily Albertson graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in sociology and is currently a student at the University of Michigan Law School. |
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