Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Tables

INTRODUCTION
The Games at the Millennium by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith

PART ONE: Cultural Difference and "Elite" Sports
1. The Olympics in Retrospect: Winners, Losers, Racism, and the Olympic Ideal by Cynthia Nadalin
2. Honor Restored: Jim Thorpe's Olympic Medals by Trace A. DeMeyer
3. Jewish Athletes and the "Nazi Olympics" by Allen Guttmann, Heather Kestner, and George Eisen
4. Racing with Race at the Olympics: From Negro to Black to African American Athlete by C. Keith Harrison
5. "We Showed the World the Nordic Way": Skiing, Norwegians, and the Winter Olympic Games in the 1920s by E. John B. Allen

PART TWO: Masculinities/Femininities/Sexualities
6. Men of the Game by Toby Miller
7. The Girls of Summer: Social Contexts for the "Year of the Woman" at the '96 Olympics by Leslie Heywood
8. Women's Sports: Coming of Age in the Third Millennium by Donna A. Lopiano
9. One Chromosome Too Many? by Cheryl L. Cole
10. The Gay Games: Creating Our Own Sports Culture by Vikki Krane and Jennifer Waldron

PART THREE: The Olympics: Drama, Spectacle, Media
11. Carrying the Torch for Whom? Symbolic Power and Olympic Ceremony by Alan Tomlinson
12. Whose Ceremony Is It Anyway? Indigenous and Olympic Interests in the Festival of the Dreaming by Lisa Meekison
13. Who's Sorry How? Drugs, Sports, and the Media towards 2000 by Andrea Mitchell and Helen Yeates
14. The Olympics of the Everyday by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith
15. Terrorism, "Killing Events," and Their Audience: Fear of Crime at the 2000 Olympics by John Tulloch

PART FOUR: Politics at the Games
16. The Olympic Branding of Aborigines: The 2000 Olympic Games and Australia's Indigenous Peoples by Darren J. Godwell
17. Bidding for the Olympics: Sit Selection and Sydney 2000 by Ian Jobling
18. Sports for All? The Politics of Funding, Nationalism, and the Quest for Gold by Lynn Embrey

References
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

KAY SCHAFFER is an associate professor in the department of Social Inquiry at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of several books, including Women and the Bush.

SIDONIE SMITH is professor of English and director of Women's Studies at The University of Michigan. She has written many books, including Women on the Move: Twentieth Century Travel Narratives and Technologies of Motion. Both Schaffer and Smith co-edited (along with Jennifer Sabbioni) Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader (Rutgers University Press)