Fuller, Linda K.
Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender
1. Introduction
Linda K. Fuller
Part I. Sport Language Per Se
2. Sportswomanship: The Cultural Acceptance of Sport for Women versus the Accommodation of Cultured Women in Sport
L. Marlene Mawson
3. Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research Literature
Jeffrey O. Segrave, Katherine L. Mcdowell, James G. King
4. “Throw Like a Girl” Doesn’t Mean What It Used To: Research on Gender, Language, and Power
Faye Linda Wachs
Part II. Historical Perspectives
5. “A Glow of Pleasurable Excitement”: Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880–1920
Nancy G. Rosoff
6. A Woman in a Man’s World: “Annie Laurie,” One of America’s First Sportswriters
Mike Sowell
7. White
Jane M. Stangl
Part III. Print Media Representations
8. She Got Game, but She Don’t Got Fame
Susan Burris
9. Strong Enough to be a Man, but Made a Woman: Discourses on Sport and Femininity in
Cheryl Cooky
10. Running a Different Race: The Rhetoric of “Women’s-Only” Content in
Marie Hardin, Julie E. Dodd
11. Exercising Control: Empowerment and the Fitness Discourse
Jennifer Smith Maguire
12. Minimizing the
Treena Orchard, Joannie Halas, Jennifer Stark
Part IV. Broadcast Media Representations
13. Television and Aerobic Sport: Empowerment and Patriarchy in
Melissa Camacho
14. We Don’t Glow, We Sweat: The Ever Changing Commentary about Women’s Athletics
James R. Hallmark
Part V. Visual Media Representations
15. Game Face: Sports Reporters’ Use of Sexualized Language in Coverage of Women’s Professional Tennis
Kimberly L. Bissell
16. The Vamp, the Homebody, and the Upstart: Women and the Language of Baseball Films
Linda K. Fuller
17. Britney, the Body and the Blurring of Popular Cultures: A Case Study of Music Videos, Gender, a Transcendent Celebrity, and Health Issues
Catherine Sabiston, Brian Wilson
Part VI. Classic Case Studies
18. NASCAR’s Boy Wonder: Jeff Gordon as Ambivalent Sex Symbol in a Macho Subculture
Scott A. G. M. Crawford
19. “Hey, I’m the Coach’s Wife, not the Team Mom”: The Rhetoric of Little League Mothers’ Role Performances
Kim Golombisky
20. “Man-On”: The Culture of Girls’ Soccer
Sally Cole Mooney
21. The Making of the Perfect Sacrifice: A Rhetorical Analysis of Football Coaches’ Descriptions of their Wives
Diana L. Tucker
22. GirlSpeak: Adolescent Females Talk about their Athletic Identities
Susan G. Zieff
Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Linguistics, general, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Popular Science in Sports, Sociology, general
- Editor
- Fuller, Linda K.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 283 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230600751
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-61970-8