01514nas a2200145   4500008004100000020001400041245007000055210006900125260004100194300001400235490000700249520097000256100002201226856012001248       2006                        eng d  a0731-121400aUsing Power: An Exploration of Control Work in the Sport Marriage0 aUsing Power An Exploration of Control Work in the Sport Marriage  bUniversity of California Pressc2006  a527 - 5570 v493 a<p>Drawing from long-term ethnographic research, this article provides valuable insight into the power and control processes that emerge from the work/family issues of professional athletes and their wives. It examines from the wives' perspective how these husbands engage in the interrelated processes of gender work and "control work" in their marital relationships and how wives respond. The "spoiled athlete syndrome" is introduced and discussed within the context of a typology of control work. As processes of learning, cultivating, and exerting control, this syndrome begins with early male, sport, and power-control socialization and continues through occupational socialization. This article seeks to explore the possible consequences and implications of such "control management" by husbands who have learned to define the male self and sport involvement as aspects of a hegemonic masculinity and how such definitions affect their wives and marriages.</p>1 aOrtiz, Steven, M.  uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/speech-communication/using-power-exploration-control-work-sport-marriage