Overview
- Explores media exposure, television audiences and live spectatorship of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
- Offers international, interdisciplinary approaches to the study of women’s soccer, gender in sports media and fandom.
- Looks to the future of women’s football and its scholarship
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What the Media Learned
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Front Matter
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What Fans Learned
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What We Still Need to Learn
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the most prolific international women’s football tournament—the FIFA Women’s World Cup—through media, fandom and how mediated women’s soccer can improve on a global scale. Women’s soccer has exploded in terms of media exposure, television audiences and live spectatorship. This book explores those macro-level issues, while also digging into micro-level topics such as Megan Rapinoe’s celebrations and political activism, VAR reviews, LGBTQ imagery, and cultural obstacles for women’s football in Central-Eastern Europe and Nigeria. Using an interdisciplinary approach, scholars look at issues through the lenses of feminist theory, cultural studies, rhetorical criticism, political economy, performative sport fandom, autoethnography, and more. Thus, the book is important reading for students, researchers and media practitioners with interests in women’s soccer, gender in sports media, coverage of women’s sport, and sport fandom.
Reviews
“2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup is a welcome addition to the critical assessment of women athletes and the growth of women’s sport. This collection provides readers with new insights into media representation, athlete agency, and fan communities for women in the world’s most popular game. From the dominance of the United States and Golden Boot winner Megan Rapinoe to the gendered politics of playing football in Nigeria, from media frames to ethnographic field studies, the assembled authors examine an array of topics and theoretical influences to assess the state of the Women’s World Cup as a distinctive cultural phenomenon. Grounded primarily in communication and media studies, the book will also appeal to scholars and students in cultural studies, kinesiology, sociology, and related fields.”
- Michael L. Butterworth, Director, Center for Sports Communication & Media
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Danielle Sarver Coombs is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup
Book Subtitle: Media, Fandom, and Soccer’s Biggest Stage
Editors: Molly Yanity, Danielle Sarver Coombs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75401-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75400-6Published: 13 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75403-7Published: 14 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75401-3Published: 12 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 314
Topics: Sport Science , Journalism, Media and Communication