Rita Liberti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Liberti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Liberti |
| SIGNATURE | LIBERTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, East Bay |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Other Olympians
Sheri Brenden. Break Point
Fit Citizens
The proliferation, in recent years, of excellent scholarly material that places Black women's exercise and sport histories at the center of analysis is enough to make one giddy with joy and excitement. Fit Citizens joins that growing roster of monographs and, in doing so, greatly advances a body of knowledge about Black women's history in sport and exercise spaces. Purkiss's examination of the ways “Black women used exercise to demonstrate their …
Back on Track
After her Olympic gold medal winning performance (her third over two Olympiads) as a member of the 4 × 100 metre relay team in 1968, US sprinter Wyomia Tyus dedicated the victory to fellow track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos. This dedication occurred in the midst of the controversy generated by Smith and Carolos’s protest against racial injustice at the Games. In that emotionally charged moment, Tyus stood in defense of her teammates and …
Gridiron Gourmet
‘All frocked up in purple’
In 1972 Rosemary (Rosie) Casals, an established player in women’s tennis and winner of several doubles championships at Wimbledon, appeared on the court of the staid English event in a tennis dress with a purple design with a ‘VS’ (Virginia Slims – a cigarette brand marketed to a female audience) embroidered on her outfit. The next day she appeared on the number one court for the women’s doubles semi-final match with the cigarette insignia clearl…
Sportista
Book Review| April 01 2014 Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States Markovits, Andrei S. and Emily K. Albertson. Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. Pp. vii+268. Appendix, index, and notes. $28.95 pb. Rita Liberti Rita Liberti California State University, East Bay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (1): 172–173. https://doi.org/…
Qualifying Times
Book Review| October 01 2014 Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport Schultz, Jaime. Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Pp. 304. $95 cb, $26.00 pb. Rita Liberti Rita Liberti California State University, East Bay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (3): 530–531. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.3.…
Coming On [and Staying] Strong
Book Review| July 01 2013 Coming On [and Staying] Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sport Rita Liberti Rita Liberti Department of Kinesiology, California State University, East Bay Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (2): 297–307. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.2.297 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Tailgate Warriors
This study provides a textual analysis of the 2009/2010 Food Network series, Tailgate Warriors ( TW). The show features teams representing National Football League (NFL) cities in competition to determine who has the best tailgate fare. TW is part of an evolution in Food Network programming from an instructional model with a largely female audience to a competition-based entertainment spectacle geared increasingly toward men. Hegemonic masculinit…
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
Book Review| July 01 2011 The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team: An American Success Story Lisi, Clemente A. The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team: An American Success Story. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2010. Pp. ix+149. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, and notes. $30 cloth. Rita Liberti Rita Liberti California State University, East Bay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (2): 331–332.…
Cause That's What Girls Do
While both men and women work out in contemporary gyms, popular conceptions of the gym as a masculine institution continue. The authors examine organizational processes within a chain of women-only gyms to explore whether and how these processes have feminized the historically masculine gym. They examine the physical setting and equipment, the established procedures for customers' use of machines, and the interactional styles of employees as comp…
Cause That's What Girls Do
While both men and women work out in contemporary gyms, popular conceptions of the gym as a masculine institution continue. The authors examine organizational processes within a chain of women-only gyms to explore whether and how these processes have feminized the historically masculine gym. They examine the physical setting and equipment, the established procedures for customers' use of machines, and the interactional styles of employees as comp…
Tailgate Warriors
This study provides a textual analysis of the 2009/2010 Food Network series, Tailgate Warriors ( TW). The show features teams representing National Football League (NFL) cities in competition to determine who has the best tailgate fare. TW is part of an evolution in Food Network programming from an instructional model with a largely female audience to a competition-based entertainment spectacle geared increasingly toward men. Hegemonic masculinit…
Gridiron Gourmet
Back on Track
After her Olympic gold medal winning performance (her third over two Olympiads) as a member of the 4 × 100 metre relay team in 1968, US sprinter Wyomia Tyus dedicated the victory to fellow track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos. This dedication occurred in the midst of the controversy generated by Smith and Carolos’s protest against racial injustice at the Games. In that emotionally charged moment, Tyus stood in defense of her teammates and …
Cause That's What Girls Do
While both men and women work out in contemporary gyms, popular conceptions of the gym as a masculine institution continue. The authors examine organizational processes within a chain of women-only gyms to explore whether and how these processes have feminized the historically masculine gym. They examine the physical setting and equipment, the established procedures for customers' use of machines, and the interactional styles of employees as comp…
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
Book Review| July 01 2011 The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team: An American Success Story Lisi, Clemente A. The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team: An American Success Story. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2010. Pp. ix+149. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, and notes. $30 cloth. Rita Liberti Rita Liberti California State University, East Bay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (2): 331–332.…
Coming On [and Staying] Strong
Book Review| July 01 2013 Coming On [and Staying] Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sport Rita Liberti Rita Liberti Department of Kinesiology, California State University, East Bay Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (2): 297–307. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.2.297 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Tailgate Warriors
This study provides a textual analysis of the 2009/2010 Food Network series, Tailgate Warriors ( TW). The show features teams representing National Football League (NFL) cities in competition to determine who has the best tailgate fare. TW is part of an evolution in Food Network programming from an instructional model with a largely female audience to a competition-based entertainment spectacle geared increasingly toward men. Hegemonic masculinit…
Sportista
Book Review| April 01 2014 Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States Markovits, Andrei S. and Emily K. Albertson. Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. Pp. vii+268. Appendix, index, and notes. $28.95 pb. Rita Liberti Rita Liberti California State University, East Bay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (1): 172–173. https://doi.org/…
Qualifying Times
Book Review| October 01 2014 Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport Schultz, Jaime. Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Pp. 304. $95 cb, $26.00 pb. Rita Liberti Rita Liberti California State University, East Bay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (3): 530–531. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.3.…
‘All frocked up in purple’
In 1972 Rosemary (Rosie) Casals, an established player in women’s tennis and winner of several doubles championships at Wimbledon, appeared on the court of the staid English event in a tennis dress with a purple design with a ‘VS’ (Virginia Slims – a cigarette brand marketed to a female audience) embroidered on her outfit. The next day she appeared on the number one court for the women’s doubles semi-final match with the cigarette insignia clearl…
Back on Track
After her Olympic gold medal winning performance (her third over two Olympiads) as a member of the 4 × 100 metre relay team in 1968, US sprinter Wyomia Tyus dedicated the victory to fellow track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos. This dedication occurred in the midst of the controversy generated by Smith and Carolos’s protest against racial injustice at the Games. In that emotionally charged moment, Tyus stood in defense of her teammates and …
Gridiron Gourmet
Sheri Brenden. Break Point
Fit Citizens
The proliferation, in recent years, of excellent scholarly material that places Black women's exercise and sport histories at the center of analysis is enough to make one giddy with joy and excitement. Fit Citizens joins that growing roster of monographs and, in doing so, greatly advances a body of knowledge about Black women's history in sport and exercise spaces. Purkiss's examination of the ways “Black women used exercise to demonstrate their …
The Other Olympians
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