Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Sport Language Per Se......Page 28
1 Sportswomanship: The Cultural Acceptance of Sport for Women versus the Accommodation of Cultured Women in Sport......Page 30
2 Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research Literature......Page 42
3 “Throw Like a Girl” Doesn’t Mean What It Used To: Research on Gender, Language, and Power......Page 54
Part II: Historical Perspectives......Page 64
4 “A Glow of Pleasurable Excitement”: Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880–1920......Page 66
5 A Woman in a Man’s World: “Annie Laurie,” One of America’s First Sportswriters......Page 76
6 White Sauvage-ry: Revisiting the Collegians and Coeds of Old Siwash College......Page 82
Part III: Print Media Representations......Page 94
7 She Got Game, but She Don’t Got Fame......Page 96
8 Strong Enough to be a Man, but Made a Woman: Discourses on Sport and Femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women......Page 108
9 Running a Different Race: The Rhetoric of “Women’s–Only” Content in Runner’s World......Page 118
10 Exercising Control: Empowerment and the Fitness Discourse......Page 130
11 Minimizing the Maxim Model? Interpreting the Sexual Body Rhetoric of Teenage Moms through Physical Education......Page 142
Part IV: Broadcast Media Representations......Page 154
12 Television and Aerobic Sport: Empowerment and Patriarchy in Denise Austin’s Daily Workouts......Page 156
13 We Don’t Glow, We Sweat: The Ever Changing Commentary about Women’s Athletics......Page 170
Part V: Visual Media Representations......Page 180
14 Game Face: Sports Reporters’ Use of Sexualized Language in Coverage of Women’s Professional Tennis......Page 182
15 The Vamp, the Homebody, and the Upstart: Women and the Language of Baseball Films......Page 196
16 Britney, the Body and the Blurring of Popular Cultures: A Case Study of Music Videos, Gender, a Transcendent Celebrity, and Health Issues......Page 210
Part VI: Classic Case Studies......Page 222
17 NASCAR’s Boy Wonder: Jeff Gordon as Ambivalent Sex Symbol in a Macho Subculture......Page 224
18 “Hey, I’m the Coach’s Wife, not the Team Mom”: The Rhetoric of Little League Mothers’ Role Performances......Page 232
19 “Man-On”: The Culture of Girls’ Soccer......Page 244
20 The Making of the Perfect Sacrifice: A Rhetorical Analysis of Football Coaches’ Descriptions of their Wives......Page 252
21 GirlSpeak: Adolescent Females Talk about their Athletic Identities......Page 264
About the Contributors......Page 276
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