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Olympic Women and the Media: International Perspectives (Global Culture and Sport)

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
273
Series
Global Culture and Sport
Edition
First Edition
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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 sexualisation, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 Reading Media Texts in Women’s Sport: Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis......Page 43
3 Opening up the Gendered Gaze: Sport Media Representations of Women, National Identity and Racialised Gaze in Canada......Page 63
4 From ‘Iron Girl’ to ‘Sexy Goddess’: An Analysis of the Chinese Media......Page 83
5 ‘Acceptable Bodies’: Deconstructing the Finnish Media Coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games......Page 100
6 Double Trouble: Kelly Holmes, Intersectionality and Unstable Narratives of Olympic Heroism in the British Media......Page 125
7 Different Shades of Orange? Media Representations of Dutch Women Medallists......Page 145
8 Winning Space in Sport: The Olympics in the New Zealand Sports Media......Page 163
9 Heroes, Sisters and Beauties: Korean Printed Media Representation of Sport Women in the 2004 Olympics......Page 181
10 An Analysis of Amaya Valdemoro’s Portrayal in a Spanish Newspaper during Athens 2004......Page 198
11 The Media as an Authorising Practice of Femininity: Swiss Newspaper Coverage of Karin Thürig’s Bronze Medal Performance in Road Cycling......Page 227
12 Reproducing Olympic Authenticity: Representations of 2004 ‘Olympic Portraits of US Athletes to Watch’......Page 245
F......Page 270
M......Page 271
S......Page 272
V......Page 273

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