Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women's Sports

ISBN-13: 9781433163838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Dunja Antunovic

Opis

Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women's Sports offers a much-needed methodological innovation to sports media research by expanding the focus beyond traditional sports media outlets to examine the diversity of media outlets writing about sports

Recenzje

"Serving Equality is a timely and engaging assessment of the inter-relationships among and between women and sports media. Cooky and Antunovic balance empirical observations with critical insights across a range of topics, including the impact of Title IX, inequities in sports media industries, the role of women in athlete activism, and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in sports. At the heart of the book is the authors' challenge to the liberal feminist notions of equality and progress which, as they argue, are undermined by good intentions that are unable to disrupt structural forms of discrimination. Cooky and Antunovic especially direct their attention to the mediated stories told about women's experiences in sports and demonstrate why those stories fail to advance robust forms of inclusion. Academically rigorous yet accessibly written, Serving Equality will be an essential resource for anyone who seeks to understand the history of gender-based exclusions in sports, contemporary struggles for equity, and the future prospects for an inclusive and safe culture for women in sports media." -Michael L. Butterworth, Director of the Center for Sports Communication & Media, The University of Texas at Austin

Spis treści

Preface - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - "Despite Title IX ... " and "No one is watching": Articulations of feminism in sports media and sports media research - "Ceiling- breaker" and "Sexist backlash": Articulations of feminism in narratives of women in sports broadcasting - "The Year of the Woman" and "The Olympics are chock full of sexist bullshit ... ": Articulations of feminism in narratives of the Olympics - "This isn't just about us": Articulations of feminism in media narratives of athlete activism - "Take a Stand" and "Kick Inequality": Articulations of feminism in promotional cultures of women's sports - "Feminist blockbuster" and "Feminist revisionism": Articulations of feminism in narratives of women's sports films - "A disaster for women's sport" and "A master class in resilience": Articulations of feminism in narratives of COVID- 19's impact on women's sport - Conclusion - Index.

O autorze

Cheryl Cooky is Professor in American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She is co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change and serves as the editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal.

Dunja Antunovic is Assistant Professor of Sport Sociology in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota. She has published over 30 journal articles and book chapters on gender, sport, and media and serves on the editorial board of Communication & Sport.