Olympic Women and the Media: International Perspectives

by Pirkko Markula

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Markula Reading Media Texts in Women's Sport: Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis; J.Liao & P.Markula Opening up the Gendered Gaze: Sport Media Representations of Women, National Identity and Racialized Gaze in Canada; M.MacNeill From 'Iron Girl' to 'Sexy Goddess': An Analysis of the Chinese Media; P.Wu 'Acceptable Bodies': Deconstructing the Finnish Media Coverage of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230222846
• ISBN13: 9780230222847
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"