Outta My Endzone

Sport and the Territorial Anus

Bibliographic Data

ID2349802
AuthorsBrian Pronger (Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume23
Issue4
Pages373-389
Publication date1999-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723599234002
OpenAlexW1989288211
LanguageEN
Citations received48
References cited21

This article proposes an analytical framework for sport that emerges from the interplay of elements of postmodern, gay, and queer theories. Embarking on a demythologizing trajectory, the article suggests that competitive sport fosters the emotional logic that is embedded in the will to power produced by the mythical union of an ever-expanding phallus and territorially enclosing anus-these work together in sport in the desire to conquer the space of the other and protectively enclose the space of the self. Drawing parallels, the violating phallus with the desire to win and the closed anus with the desire not to lose, the article deconstructs the emotional logic of sport as a celebration of patriarchal violation and homophobic resistance to penetration. As an immensely popular cultural spectacle and practice, therefore, competitive sport plays an important role in the reproduction of phallically aggressive and anally closed cultures of desire

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Parallels · Phallus (fungus · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Queer · Sociology · Spectacle · Subversion · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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