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Article: Dennis Rodman--"Barbie Doll Gone Horribly Wrong": Marginalized Masculinity, Cross-Dressing, and the Limitations of Commodity Culture.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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This article explores the relationship between NBA player Dennis Rodman's marginalized masculinity as a black male, his cross-dressing and gender play, and his location in consumer media culture. Through ethnographic content analysis of Rodman's media image on MTV (a new and emerging site for the study of sport and media), this paper explores the effects of Rodman's gender play, asking whether Rodman's image provides a challenge or disruption to prevailing notions of masculinity. Overall, Rodman's cross-dressing does little to offer a critique of hegemonic masculinity, but rather, serves to signal his own marginalized black masculinity. His gender play seems to be ...
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