Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender

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.

PART I: SPORT LANGUAGE PER SE Sportswomanship: The Cultural Acceptance of Sport for Women Versus the Accommodation of Cultured Women in Sport; L. M. Mawson Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research Literature; J. O Segrave, K. L. McDowell & J. G. King 'Throw Like a Girl' Doesn't Mean What It Used To: Research on Gender, Language, and Power; F. L. Wachs PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES "A Glow of Pleasurable Excitement": Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880-1920; N. G. Rosoff A Woman in a Man's World: Annie Laurie, One of America's First Sportswriters; M. Sowell White Sauvage-ry: Revisiting the Collegians and Coeds of Old Siwash College; J. Stang PART III: PRINT MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS She Got Game, but She Don't Got Fame; S. Burris Strong Enough to Be a Man, But Made a Woman: Discourses of Femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women; C. Cooky Running a Different Race? The Rhetoric of 'Women's-Only' Content in Runner's World; M. Hardin & J. Dodd Control: Em-powerment and the Fitness Discourse; J. S. Maguire Minimizing the Maxim Model? : Interpreting the Sexual Body Rhetoric of Teenage Moms through Physical Education; T. Orchard, J. Stark & J. Halas PART IV: BROADCAST MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS Television and Aerobic Sport: Empowerment and Patriarchy in Denise Austin's Daily Workouts; M. Camacho We Don't Glow, We Sweat: The Ever Changing Commentary about Women's Athletics; J. R. Hallmark PART V: VISUAL MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS Game Face: Sports Reporters: Use of Sexualized Language in Coverage of Women's Professional Tennis; K. L. Bissell The Vamp, the Homebody, and the Upstart: Women, Language, and Baseball Films; L. K. Fuller Britney, the Body, and the Blurring of Popular Cultures: A Case Study of Music Videos, Gender, a Transcendent Celebrity, and Health Issues; C. Sabiston & B. Wilson PART VI: CLASSIC CASE STUDIES NASCAR's Boy Wonder: Jeff Gordon as Ambivalent Sex Symbol in a Macho Sub-Culture; S. A. G. M. Crawford Hey, I'm the Coach's Wife, not the Team Mom': The Rhetoric of Little League Mothers' Role Performances; K. Golombisky "Man-On": The Culture of Girls' Soccer; S. C. Mooney The Making of the Perfect Sacrifice: An Analysis of Football Coaches' Rhetorical Descriptions of Their Wives; D. L. Tucker GirlSpeak: Adolescent Females Talk About Their Athletic Identities; S. G. Zieff