Women, Media and Sports: Challenging Gender Values

The first book to link feminist, sport, and media theory together, Women, Media, and Sport provides a broad cultural studies approach, which also touches on race and class relations in sport. In addition to the theoretical analyses, this volume provides a practical look at models of sport, media effects, and the construction of the sportswomen and women’s sport. Designed as a text to fill the gap in this area, the book is organized into three sections. The first section provides an overview of women, sport, and the media and an example of the ways they intertwine. The extensive range of articles in the second section focuses on print and broadcast media’s portrayal of women’s sports and its journalistic process and examines such issues as the relationship between sports promotion and media’s representations of women’s sport and how sport reporting is taught to future journalists. The final section seeks to develop a new model for the future. A thorough and original text, Women, Media, and Sport is essential for scholars, students, and professionals in media and mass communication studies, sociology, women’s studies, cultural studies, popular culture, ethnic studies, and gender studies.

ISBN: 0-8039-5234-1
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year of Publication: 1994