Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics

Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction to the history and historiography of tennis • Robert J. Lake
Part I: Historical developments (commercialization, professionalization and the creation of tennis celebrities, globalization and internationalization of tennis)
	2 From folk game to elite pastime: Tennis and Its patrons • Brad Hummel and Mark Dyreson
	3 Grass roots: The development of tennis in Great Britain, 1918–78 • Joyce Kay
	4 Coaching and training in British tennis: A history of competing ideals • Robert J. Lake, Dave Day and Simon J. Eaves
	5 Golden years and golden stars: International women’s tennis between the wars • Elizabeth Wilson
	6 A transcendent game plan: Bill Tilden’s rhetorical strategy in defying the USLTA • John Carvalho and Michael Milford
	7 Fred Perry and the amateur-Professional divide in British tennis between the wars • Kevin Jefferys
	8 Boris Becker and Steffi Graf: German tennis, media images and national identity • Kristian Naglo
	9 The female hero through the cultural lens: Comparing framing of Li Na in Chinese and Western media • Steve Bien-Aimé, Haiyan Jia and Chun Yang
	10 The world’s game? Globalisation and the cultural economy of tennis • Barry Smart
	11 Jeu de Paume, lawn tennis and France’s national identity from the 1870s to the Musketeers era • Patrick Clastres
	12 Lawn tennis in Ireland: The untold history, 1870–1914 • Simon J. Eaves and Tom Higgins
	13 Socio-cultural transformations of tennis in the Czech Republic • Arnošt Svoboda and Dino Numerato
	14 A brief historical, political and social analysis of Argentine tennis • Robert G. Rodriguez
	15 Indian tennis: Past perfect, present continuous, future tense • Suvam Pal
	16 Tennis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region • Mahfoud Amara
Part II: Culture and representations (gender, race, class, the arts and media)
	17 Fashioning competitive lawn tennis: Object, image and reality in women’s tennis dress 1884–1919 • Suzanne Rowland
	18 Wimbledon women: Elite amateur tennis players in the mid-twentieth century • Janine van Someren and Stephen Wagg
	19 Beyond the “Kournikova phenomenon”: Race and beauty in a“colorblind” culture • Helen Ditouras
	20 Making work out of play: The troubling gender performances of Bill Tilden • Nathan Titman
	21 Your racquet should do the talking: Masculinity and top-class tennis, 1930s to the early twenty-first century • Stephen Wagg
	22 “You’ve come a long way baby” but when will you get to deuce?: The media (re)presentation of women‘s tennis in the post Open Era • John Vincent
	23 Veiled hyper-sexualization: Deciphering Strong is Beautiful as collectiveidentity in the WTA’s global ad campaign • Travis R. Bell and Janelle Applequist
	24 Warriors of the court: Richard “Pancho” González, Rosie Casals and the history of US Latino/as in tennis • José M. Alamillo
	25 Historical changes in playing styles and behavioural etiquette in tennis: Reflecting broader shifts in social class and gender relations • Robert J. Lake
	26 The seductions of modern tennis: Technical invention, social practice, literary discourse • Alexis Tadie
	27 Understanding competitive tennis through literature and the visual arts: Society, celebrity and aesthetics • Alexis Tadie
	28 The literature of tennis • Jeffrey O. Segrave
	29 International tennis art • Ann Sumner
	30 Tennis and the media: A history of shifting attitudes toward tennis journalism and broadcasting • Robert J. Lake and Simon J. Eaves
	31 Exploring an online tennis community • Nadina Ayer and Ron McCarville
	32 Tennis and social media • Katie Lebel and Karen Danylchuk
Part III: Politics and social issues (governance, nationalism and identity: race, gender, class and disability)
	33 Tennis governance: A history of political power struggles • Robert J. Lake
	34 Defending the grand slam: Government intervention, urban renewal and keeping the Australian Open • Alistair John and Brent McDonald
	35 Tennis and the Olympics: An historical examination of their on-off relationship since 1896 • Matthew P. Llewellyn and Robert J. Lake
	36 The Wimbledon effect: The tennis championships as changing national symbol • Stephen Wagg
	37 Andy Murray and the borders of national identities: (Re)claiming a tennis champion • John Harris
	38 Racial politics in the history of American tennis • Sundiata Djata
	39 Arthur Ashe: Politics, racism and tennis • Eric Allen Hall
	40 The Original 9: The social movement that created women’s professional tennis, 1968–73 • Kristi Tredway
	41 Giving all women the chance: The battle of the sexes in popular culture • Jessica Luther
	42 Break point: Renée Richards and the significance of sex and gender in women’s tennis • Lindsay Parks Pieper
	43 Venus and Serena are “doing it” for themselves: Theorizing sporting celebrity, Marxism and Black feminism for the Hip-Hop generation 4• Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
	44 Wheelchair tennis: Historical development and narratives of play • Linda K. Fuller
	45 A history of social exclusion in British tennis: From grass roots to the elite level • Robert J. Lake
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