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Title

Olympic women and the media : international perspectives / edited by Pirkko Markula.

Publication

Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Markula, Pirkko, 1961-

Description

xi, 260 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This text examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympics. Through feminist theorising and 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.

Series Statement

Global culture and sport

Uniform Title

Global culture and sport

Subject

• Athen > Olympische Spiele (2004)
• Olympic Games 2004 : Athens, Greece)
• Olympic Games
• Mass media and sports
• Women in mass media
• Mass media and women
• Women athletes
• Feminism and sports
• Sportberichterstattung
• Sportlerin
• Feminismus
• Frau
• Idrott i massmedia
• Kvinnor i massmedia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Pirkko Markula -- Reading media texts in women's sport: critical discourse analysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis / Judy Liao and Pirkko Markula -- Opening up the gendered gaze: sport media representations of women, national identity and racialised gaze in Canada / Margaret MacNeill -- From 'iron girl' to 'sexy goddess': an analysis of the Chinese media / Ping Wu -- 'Acceptable bodies': deconstructing the Finnish media coverage of the 2004 Olympic games / Pirkko Markula -- Double trouble: Kelly Holmes, intersectionality and unstable narratives of Olympic heroism in the British media / Laura Hills and Eileen Kennedy -- Different shades of orange? Media representations of Dutch women medallists / Agnes Elling and Roelien Luijt -- Winning space in sport: the Olympics in the New Zealand sports media / Toni Bruce -- Heroes, sisters and beauties: Korean printed media representation of sport women in the 2004 Olympics / Eunha Koh -- An analysis of Amaya Valdemoro's portrayal in a Spanish newspaper during Athens 2004 / Montserrat Martin -- The media as an authorising practice of femininity: Swiss newspaper coverage of Karin Thürig's bronze medal performance in road cycling / Natalie Barker-Ruchti -- Reproducing Olympic authenticity: representations of 2004 'Olympic portraits of US athletes to watch' / Nancy Spencer.

ISBN

• 9780230222847
• 0230222846

LCCN

2009279738

OCLC

• ocn298778529
• 298778529
• SCSB-13950248

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library