Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender Historical Perspectives and Media Representations

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-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena.

Linda K. Fuller, Professor in the Communications Department of Worcester (MA) State College, is the author/ (co)editor of more than 20 books and 250+ professional publications and conference reports, including the five-volume series Beyond the Stars: Studies in American Popular Film (1990-1996); Communicating Comfortably: Your Guide to Overcoming Speaking and Writing Anxieties (1990); The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact, Implications (1992); Community Television in the U.S.: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access (1994); Communicating About Communicable Diseases (1995); Media-Mediated Relationships (1996); Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997); Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (1998); Media-Mediated AIDS (2003), and National Days/National Ways  (2004). She has been appointed Visiting Senior Fellow at Northeastern University for 2005-2006, with the Institute for Critical Gender and Ethnic Studies Research.