Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Linda K. Fuller

      Pages 1-16

3. Sport Language Per Se

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Sportswomanship: The Cultural Acceptance of Sport for Women versus the Accommodation of Cultured Women in Sport

      • L. Marlene Mawson

      Pages 19-30

   3. Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research Literature

      • Jeffrey O. Segrave, Katherine L. Mcdowell, James G. King III

      Pages 31-41

   4. “Throw Like a Girl” Doesn’t Mean What It Used To: Research on Gender, Language, and Power

      • Faye Linda Wachs

      Pages 43-52

4. Historical Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. “A Glow of Pleasurable Excitement”: Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880–1920

      • Nancy G. Rosoff

      Pages 55-64

   3. A Woman in a Man’s World: “Annie Laurie,” One of America’s First Sportswriters

      • Mike Sowell

      Pages 65-70

   4. White Sauvage-ry: Revisiting the Collegians and Coeds of Old Siwash College

      • Jane M. Stangl

      Pages 71-81

5. Print Media Representations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. She Got Game, but She Don’t Got Fame

      • Susan Burris

      Pages 85-96

   3. Strong Enough to be a Man, but Made a Woman: Discourses on Sport and Femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women

      • Cheryl Cooky

      Pages 97-106

   4. Running a Different Race: The Rhetoric of “Women’s-Only” Content in Runner’s World

      • Marie Hardin, Julie E. Dodd

      Pages 107-117

   5. Exercising Control: Empowerment and the Fitness Discourse

      • Jennifer Smith Maguire

      Pages 119-129

   6. Minimizing the Maxim Model? Interpreting the Sexual Body Rhetoric of Teenage Moms through Physical Education

      • Treena Orchard, Joannie Halas, Jennifer Stark

      Pages 131-142

6. Broadcast Media Representations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Television and Aerobic Sport: Empowerment and Patriarchy in Denise Austin’s Daily Workouts

      • Melissa Camacho

      Pages 145-157

   3. We Don’t Glow, We Sweat: The Ever Changing Commentary about Women’s Athletics

      • James R. Hallmark

      Pages 159-168

7. Visual Media Representations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains 21 wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-à-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena.

• culture
• gender
• language
• media
• Sex
• Sport
• television
• women

'As the editor of this ambitious collection, Fuller has carved out a unique niche. The three topics of sports, gender, and rhetoric are each individually broad fields of study now and, by combining them, this work will to touch a nerve with many people. This book is interesting, original, and insightful.' - Michael Real, Royal Roads University, Canada

'This informative, captivating collection of extremely well-written essays cover a wide variety of topics...A wonderful resource for those interested in women's studies, women and sport and sports sociology.' - Choice

'...a convincing and important collection which adds a great deal to our understanding of how our self-image and our image of others is shaped by the pervasive discourse of sports language. Models of leadership, team work, and strategies for meeting objectives in the workplace and in our homes are all - this book argues persuasively - in some way shaped by the discourse of sports.' - Media Development

LINDA K. FULLER is Professor of Communications at Worcester State College, USA.

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