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Sport Marriage

Steven M. Ortiz
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boundaries of fidelity
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career-dominated marriage
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code of conduct
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culture of infidelity
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game etiquette
groupie typology
groupieism
groupies
heteronormative sport marriage
hierarchy of wives
image work
in-law relationships
infidelity
institutionalized brotherhood
internalized "we" partnership
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longitudinal study
male professional athletes
male-dominated occupational worlds
marital teamwork
marriage
marriage in professional sports
marriage in sports
motherization
organizational dominance
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patterns of infidelity
power and control
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professional sports
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quasi-celebrityhood
role reversal
secondhand identity
sexual subordination
softlaunch
spoiled athlete syndrome
sport marriage
sport wives
subordination work
surrogate role
suspicion work
traditional marriage
unwritten rules
virgin-prostitute syndrome
wives' emotional lives
women
women in marriage
women's voices
women’s voices

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252043161
  • Weight: 594g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Aug 2020
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Description
In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. These women, who are usually portrayed in unflattering and/or unrealistic terms, face enormous challenges in their attempts to establish and maintain functional marital and family lives while the husband routinely puts his career first.

Ortiz defines the traditional sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, illustrating how it encourages women to contribute to their own subordination through adherence to an unwritten rulebook and a repertoire of self-management strategies. He explains how they make invaluable contributions to their husbands' careers while adjusting to public life and trying to maintain family privacy, managing power and control issues, and coping with pervasive groupies, overinvolved mothers, a culture of infidelity, and husbands who prioritize team loyalty. He gives these historically silent women a voice, offering readers perceptive and sensitive insight into what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports.
About Steven M. Ortiz

Steven M. Ortiz is an associate professor of sociology at Oregon State University.

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