ISBN:
0230222846
,
9780230222847
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 260 p)
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Global culture and sport
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Olympic Women and the Media : International Perspectives
DDC:
302.23088796
Keywords:
Olympic Games
;
Feminism and sports
;
Women in mass media
;
Mass media and women
;
Mass media and sports
;
Women athletes
Abstract:
This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Reading Media Texts in Women's Sport: Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis; 3 Opening up the Gendered Gaze: Sport Media Representations of Women, National Identity and Racialised Gaze in Canada; 4 From 'Iron Girl' to 'Sexy Goddess': An Analysis of the Chinese Media; 5 'Acceptable Bodies': Deconstructing the Finnish Media Coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games; 6 Double Trouble: Kelly Holmes, Intersectionality and Unstable Narratives of Olympic Heroism in the British Media
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Different Shades of Orange? Media Representations of Dutch Women Medallists8 Winning Space in Sport: The Olympics in the New Zealand Sports Media; 9 Heroes, Sisters and Beauties: Korean Printed Media Representation of Sport Women in the 2004 Olympics; 10 An Analysis of Amaya Valdemoro's Portrayal in a Spanish Newspaper during Athens 2004; 11 The Media as an Authorising Practice of Femininity: Swiss Newspaper Coverage of Karin Thürig's Bronze Medal Performance in Road Cycling; 12 Reproducing Olympic Authenticity: Representations of 2004 'Olympic Portraits of US Athletes to Watch'; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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