Summary Of The Article 'Tracks' By Douglas Booth
Booth examines ‘Tracks’ magazine as a response to Henderson (cited) and Stedman’s analysis of the magazine. Booth believes that their view of Tracks as a product of a ‘highly gendered social structure’ with the power to inform and shape the identity and behaviour of it’s reader to fit within a hegemonic society is not true.
Booth approaches his pictorial and textual analysis of the magazine with an open and loose attitude and looks to answer how Tracks affects its readers, rather than viewing it as a product of hegemonic society.
This article is useful to me as it offers a different analysis of Tracks magazine, to Henderson’s which I have included.
Douglas Booth is Professor of sport and leisure studies at Otago University, USA. The intended
Booth approaches his pictorial and textual analysis of the magazine with an open and loose attitude and looks to answer how Tracks affects its readers, rather than viewing it as a product of hegemonic society.
This article is useful to me as it offers a different analysis of Tracks magazine, to Henderson’s which I have included.
Douglas Booth is Professor of sport and leisure studies at Otago University, USA. The intended