Women’s football: sexed bodies and interfering discourse : if gender is the social organisation of sexual difference through various social practices, discourses, and politics of representation, to what extent can the media popularisation of female soccer

Primarily a theoretical piece contributing to debates on heteronormativity and its cognate conceptual fields, the thesis utilises a linguistic version of discourse analysis to investigate a study of representation. The thesis addresses representation of women’s soccer as a site of potential disruption of dominant cultural understandings of gender and sexuality, but also attempts to ‘queer’ dominant categories for making sense of the body in general

Publisher: University of Witwatersrand
Year of Publication: 2012
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