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Female Olympians: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline
Linda Fuller
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Description for Female Olympians: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline
Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBS; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women’s bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians’ successes. ... Read more
This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women’s bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians’ successes. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137594815
SKU
V9781137594815
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Ref
99-15
About Linda Fuller
Linda K. Fuller is Professor of Communications at Worcester State University, USA. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than 20 books and 250 professional publications and conference reports. Her books include Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (Palgrave, 2006), African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises (Palgrave, 2008), Women, War, and ... Read more
Reviews for Female Olympians: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline
“Fuller’s multifaceted Female Olympians offers an extensively researched study grounded in familiar, essential theories concerning issues of gendered power and privilege. … This comprehensible study will be of interest to scholars in several fields, as well as any individual interested in gendered Olympic history from a ‘mediated’ cultural focus. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” (A. Curtis, Choice, Vol. 54 (11), ... Read more