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Media representations of footballers' wives : a wag's life / Jennifer Bullen.
- Title
- Media representations of footballers' wives : a wag's life / Jennifer Bullen.
- Author
- Bullen, Jennifer
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GV943.9.S64 B85 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 221 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Since the FIFA World Cup of 2006, footballers' wives have become a staple part of popular British culture, regularly appearing in glossy magazines, the tabloid press, reality shows and documentaries. Jen Bullen provides an analysis of how the media has created an exaggerated and stereotypical 'wag' (wife and girlfriend) figure. Wags are treated like royalty, living in a glamorous and fairy tale world and offering the aspiration of transformation to young women, while elsewhere they are denigrated as pathological and representative of a short-cut culture - gold-digging bimbos undeserving of their fame and fortune and, as such, subjected to symbolic violence based on their class and taste. Bullen examines such representations in relation to class, gender, celebrity and football"--
- Subject
- Soccer > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Mass media > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Mass media and sports > Great Britain
- Soccer players' spouses > Great Britain
- Soccer players' spouses > Public opinion
- Wives > Effect of husband's employment on > Great Britain
- Fame > Social aspects > Great Britain
- PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer
- GAMES / Gambling / Sports
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays
- SPORTS & RECREATION / History
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports
- Sociology: sport & leisure
- Sociology
- Material culture
- Popular culture
- TV & society
- Media studies: TV & society
- Media Studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framing the wag -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Wives in Print -- 5. Fact or Fiction? -- 6. Auto/biographies: Telling Tales -- 7. Conclusions: What's in a Name? -- Data Sources -- Appendix: A ; Appendix: B ; Appendix C -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781137335685 (hardback)
- 1137335688 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2014019727
- OCLC
- 871331362
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library