Carly Gieseler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carly Gieseler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carly |
| FAMILY NAME | Gieseler |
| SIGNATURE | GIESELER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0357-9391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning to Fail: Adolescent Resistance in Extreme Sports
Employing dysfunctional or arrested development, extreme sports tricksters cultivate diverse strategies of sporting identity. Through parody, satire, and mockery, adolescent performances and representations resist hegemonic ideologies of mainstream sports masculinity. This work interrogates the representational and performative texts, events, and bodies of extreme sports using queer theories and psychoanalytic approaches. To assess failure as a p…
Gender-reveal parties: Performing Community Identity in Pink and Blue
The gender-reveal party has become the latest trend to publicize and commoditize what was once a private, intimate moment in parenthood. As this trend has grown in popularity, it has sparked a divisive discourse and reasserted normative ideals of gender. This article explores the representations and conversations surrounding this trend across newspapers, magazines and Internet sites. Approaching this phenomenon through performance and performativ…
Derby drag: Parodying sexualities in the sport of roller derby
The roller derby revival has created a unique stage and community for women athletes. Using Helen Lenskyj's foundational work to frame the institutional oppressions on women in sports, I explore how marginalized spaces like derby engender performances and identities outside the male-dominated hegemony of mainstream sport. In parodically dragging sexualities, derby skaters expose and critique institutional constraints for women athletes and their …
Pranking Peter Pans: Performing Playground Masculinities in Extreme Sports
In this essay, I explore how extreme sporting athletes and reality prank programming stars perform adolescent masculinities that comply, resist, and transform traditional codes of masculinity. In the phenomenon I dub “pranktainment,” I analyze MTV's Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Nitro Circus to reveal how extreme stars use language, embody attitudes, and construct dramas in adolescent performances of masculinity. Even as the white, heterosexual, male…
Gender-reveal parties: Performing Community Identity in Pink and Blue
The gender-reveal party has become the latest trend to publicize and commoditize what was once a private, intimate moment in parenthood. As this trend has grown in popularity, it has sparked a divisive discourse and reasserted normative ideals of gender. This article explores the representations and conversations surrounding this trend across newspapers, magazines and Internet sites. Approaching this phenomenon through performance and performativ…
Pranking Peter Pans: Performing Playground Masculinities in Extreme Sports
In this essay, I explore how extreme sporting athletes and reality prank programming stars perform adolescent masculinities that comply, resist, and transform traditional codes of masculinity. In the phenomenon I dub “pranktainment,” I analyze MTV's Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Nitro Circus to reveal how extreme stars use language, embody attitudes, and construct dramas in adolescent performances of masculinity. Even as the white, heterosexual, male…
Derby drag: Parodying sexualities in the sport of roller derby
The roller derby revival has created a unique stage and community for women athletes. Using Helen Lenskyj's foundational work to frame the institutional oppressions on women in sports, I explore how marginalized spaces like derby engender performances and identities outside the male-dominated hegemony of mainstream sport. In parodically dragging sexualities, derby skaters expose and critique institutional constraints for women athletes and their …
Pranking Peter Pans: Performing Playground Masculinities in Extreme Sports
In this essay, I explore how extreme sporting athletes and reality prank programming stars perform adolescent masculinities that comply, resist, and transform traditional codes of masculinity. In the phenomenon I dub “pranktainment,” I analyze MTV's Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Nitro Circus to reveal how extreme stars use language, embody attitudes, and construct dramas in adolescent performances of masculinity. Even as the white, heterosexual, male…
Gender-reveal parties: Performing Community Identity in Pink and Blue
The gender-reveal party has become the latest trend to publicize and commoditize what was once a private, intimate moment in parenthood. As this trend has grown in popularity, it has sparked a divisive discourse and reasserted normative ideals of gender. This article explores the representations and conversations surrounding this trend across newspapers, magazines and Internet sites. Approaching this phenomenon through performance and performativ…
Learning to Fail: Adolescent Resistance in Extreme Sports
Employing dysfunctional or arrested development, extreme sports tricksters cultivate diverse strategies of sporting identity. Through parody, satire, and mockery, adolescent performances and representations resist hegemonic ideologies of mainstream sports masculinity. This work interrogates the representational and performative texts, events, and bodies of extreme sports using queer theories and psychoanalytic approaches. To assess failure as a p…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works) · Hegemonic masculinity (3 works) · Hegemony (3 works) · Masculinity (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works)