Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender Historical Perspectives and Media Representations

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ISBN: 9780230619708 | 0230619703
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/15/2009

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Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, this book deconstructs the role of rhetoric in the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business. 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.

Introduction	p. 1
Sport Language Per Se
Sportswomanship: The Cultural Acceptance of Sport for Women versus the Accommodation of Cultured Women in Sport	p. 19
Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research Literature	p. 31
"Throw Like a Girl" Doesn't Mean What It Used To: Research on Gender, Language, and Power	p. 43
Historical Perspectives
"A Glow of Pleasurable Excitement": Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880-1920	p. 55
A Woman in a Man's World: "Annie Laurie," One of America's First Sportswriters	p. 65
White Sauvage-ry: Revisiting the Collegians and Coeds of Old Siwash College	p. 71
Print Media Representations
She Got Game, but She Don't Got Fame	p. 85
Strong Enough to be a Man, but Made a Woman: Discourses on Sport and Femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women	p. 97
Running a Different Race: The Rhetoric of "Women's-Only" Content in Runner's World	p. 107
Exercising Control: Empowerment and the Fitness Discourse	p. 119
Minimizing the Maxim Model? Interpreting the Sexual Body Rhetoric of Teenage Moms through Physical Education	p. 131
Broadcast Media Representations
Television and Aerobic Sport: Empowerment and Patriarchy in Denise Austin's Daily Workouts	p. 145
We Don't Glow, We Sweat: The Ever Changing Commentary about Women's Athletics	p. 159
Visual Media Representations
Game Face: Sports Reporters' Use of Sexualized Language in Coverage of Women's Professional Tennis	p. 171
The Vamp, the Homebody, and the Upstart: Women and the Language of Baseball Films	p. 185
Britney, the Body and the Blurring of Popular Cultures: A Case Study of Music Videos, Gender, a Transcendent Celebrity, and Health Issues	p. 199
Classic Case Studies
NASCAR's Boy Wonder: Jeff Gordon as Ambivalent Sex Symbol in a Macho Subculture	p. 213
"Hey, I'm the Coach's Wife, not the Team Mom": The Rhetoric of Little League Mothers' Role Performances	p. 221
"Man-On": The Culture of Girls' Soccer	p. 233
The Making of the Perfect Sacrifice: A Rhetorical Analysis of Football Coaches' Descriptions of their Wives	p. 241
GirlSpeak: Adolescent Females Talk about their Athletic Identities	p. 253
About the Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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