Sport, rhetoric, and gender : historical perspectives and media representations / edited by Linda K. Fuller.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: ix, 274 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1403973288
- 9781403973283
- 306.483 22
- GV706.5 .S7364 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sportswomanship : the cultural acceptance of sport for women versus the accommodation of cultured women in sport / L. Marlene Mawson -- 2. Language, gender, and sport : a review of the research literature / Jeffrey O. Segrave, Katherine L. McDowell and James G. King III -- 3. "Throw like a girl" doesn't mean what it used to : research on gender, language, and power / Faye Linda Wachs -- 4. "A glow of pleasurable excitement" : images of the new athletic woman in American popular culture, 1880-1920 / Nancy G. Rosoff -- 5. A women in a man's world : "Annie Laurie," one of America's first sportswriters / Mike Sowell -- 6. White Sauvage-ry : revisiting the collegians and coeds of Old Siwash College / Jane M. Stangl -- 7. She got game, but she don't got fame / Susan Burris -- 8. Strong enough to be a man, but made a woman : discourses on sport and femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women / Cheryl Cooky -- 9. Running a different race : the rhetoric of "women's-only" content in Runner's World / Marie Hardin and Julie E. Dodd -- 10. Exercising control : empowerment and the fitness discourse / Jennifer Smith Maguire -- 11. Minimizing the Maxim model? : interpreting the sexual body rhetoric of teenage moms through physical education / Treena Orchard, Joannie Halas and Jennifer Stark -- 12. Television and aerobic sport : empowerment and patriarchy in Denise Austin's Daily Workouts / Melissa Camacho -- 13. We don't glow, we sweat : the ever changing commentary about women's athletics / James R. Hallmark -- 14. Game face : sports reporters' use of sexualized language in coverage of women's professional tennis / Kimberly L. Bissell -- 15. The vamp, the homebody, and the upstart : women and the language of baseball films / Linde K. Fuller -- 16. Britney, the body and the blurring of popular cultures : a case study of music videos, gender, a transcendent celebrity, and health issues / Catherine Sabiston and Brian Wilson -- 17. NASCAR's boy wonder : Jeff Gordon as ambivalent sex symbol in a macho subculture / Scott A. G. M. Crawford -- 18. "Hey, I'm the coach's wife, not the team mom" : the rhetoric of little league mothers' role performances / Kim Golombisky -- 19. "Man-on" : the culture of girls' soccer / Sally Cole Mooney -- 20. The making of the perfect sacrifice : a rhetorical analysis of football coaches' descriptions of their wives / Diana L. Tucker -- 21. GirlSpeak : adolescent females talk about their athletic identities / Susan G. Zieff.
"Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains twenty-one wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-୶is the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena."--Publisher description.
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