Sexual sports rhetoric : historical and media contexts of violence /

Sexual sports rhetoric : historical and media contexts of violence / edited by Linda K. Fuller. - ix, 288 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

It's still part of the game: violence and masculintiy in Canadian ice hockey / Michael Atkinson -- Representations of sport violence and spousal abuse / Margery Holman ... [et al.] -- Playing beyond the glass: how parents support violence in minor hockey / Michael A. Robindoux and Jochen G. Bocksnick -- Reflections on sport, masculinity and nationalism in the aftermath of 9/11 / Ellen J. Staurowsky -- Hot wheels and high heels: gender roles in stock car racing / David "Turbo" Thompson -- All-skates, witch wool and a blouse full of lungs: Dan Jenkins' use of masculine sexual language / John Mark Dempsey -- Football hooliganism: a rhetoric of frustration and honor / Anne E. Price -- Gender, cross-dressing and sport in Lewis Nordan's The all-girl football team / Robert Sirabian -- Media, masculinity and The world's strongest man: exploring postmodern sports programming / Gina Daddario -- Xclusion at the Winter X games: the marginalization of women athletes in altrnative sport / Joy Crissey Honea -- The Jim Rome show and negotiations of manhood: surviving in "the jungle" / Maureen Margaret Smith -- Put me in, Ms. coach: sexual rhetoric in the locker room / Megan Chawansky -- Foul language: a feminist perspective on (American) football film rhetoric / Linda K. Fuller -- Hail the chiefs: race, gender and native American sports mascots / C. Richard King -- Powerful or pornographic? Photographs of female bodybuilders in Muscle & fitness magazine / Debra Merskin -- Off his rocker: masculinity and the rhetoric of violence in America's favorite pastime / John P. Elia, Jon B. Martin and Gust A. Yep -- Wham! Bam! Thank you, Ma'am: the rhetoric surrounding female professional boxers / Shura Alexandra Gat -- Women playing rugby: rejection of "the girly: by girls / Jessica Hudson -- All bust and balls: gender, language and pool / Erin Reilly -- Media grappling with female success on the mat: Tricia Saunders, multiple-word freestyle wrestling champion / Theresa A. Walton.

143310508X 9781433105081 1433105071 9781433105074

2009034446


Violence in sports--Sociological aspects
Sports for women--Sociological aspects
Gender identity.

GV706.7 / .S49 2010

306.483

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