Sport, Rhetoric, And Gender

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Author: Linda K Fuller

ISBN-10: 1403973288

ISBN-13: 9781403973283

Category: Media - General & Miscellaneous

Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender deconstructs the role of rhetoric in the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business. Wide-ranging, its 21 chapters, from contributors representing a number of different disciplines and athletic interests, examine sport vis-à-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena. Edited by Linda K. Fuller, it consists of these divisions: 1.Sport language per se;...

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Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender deconstructs the role of rhetoric in the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business. Wide-ranging, its 21 chapters, from contributors representing a number of different disciplines and athletic interests, examine sport vis-à-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena. Edited by Linda K. Fuller, it consists of these divisions: 1.Sport language per se; 2.Historical perspectives; 3.Print media representations; 4.Broadcast media representations; 5.Visual media representations; and 6.Classic case studies.

1Sportswomanship : the cultural acceptance of sport for women versus the accommodation of cultured women in sport192Language, gender, and sport : a review of the research literature313"Throw like a girl" doesn't mean what it used to : research on gender, language, and power434"A glow of pleasurable excitement" : images of the new athletic woman in American popular culture, 1880-1920555A women in a man's world : "Annie Laurie," one of America's first sportswriters656White Sauvage-ry : revisiting the collegians and coeds of Old Siwash College717She got game, but she don't got fame858Strong enough to be a man, but made a woman : discourses on sport and femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women979Running a different race : the rhetoric of "women's-only" content in Runner's World10710Exercising control : empowerment and the fitness discourse11911Minimizing the Maxim model? : interpreting the sexual body rhetoric of teenage moms through physical education13112Television and aerobic sport : empowerment and patriarchy in Denise Austin's Daily Workouts14513We don't glow, we sweat : the ever changing commentary about women's athletics15914Game face : sports reporters' use of sexualized language in coverage of women's professional tennis17115The vamp, the homebody, and the upstart : women and the language of baseball films18516Britney, the body and the blurring of popular cultures : a case study of music videos, gender, a transcendent celebrity, and health issues19917NASCAR's boy wonder : Jeff Gordon as ambivalent sex symbol in a macho subculture21318"Hey, I'm the coach's wife, not the team mom" : the rhetoric of little league mothers' role performances22119"Man-on" : the culture of girls' soccer23320The making of the perfect sacrifice : a rhetorical analysis of football coaches' descriptions of their wives24121GirlSpeak : adolescent females talk about their athletic identities253