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- Title
"I Am Not a Cow": Challenging Narratives of Empowerment in Teen Girls Sports Fiction.
- Authors
Whiteside, Erin; Hardin, Marie; DeCarvalho, Lauren J.; Martinez Carillo, Nadia; Nutter Smith, Alexandra
- Abstract
This research examines two popular teen girls sports fiction series, called "Pretty Tough" and "Dairy Queen." The books are heavily premised on the idea of empowerment, and are written in ways that invite the reader to see each protagonist's choices as agentic and even subversive. Our analysis points to the ways the discourse of empowerment obscures how girls are invited to adopt ideology toward sports that undermines their ability to experience sports on their own terms.
- Subjects
SPORTS stories; SCHOOL sports for girls; THEMES in young adult literature; YOUNG adult literature; SOCIOLOGY of sports; GIRLS; STORY plots
- Publication
Sociology of Sport Journal, 2013, Vol 30, Issue 4, p415
- ISSN
0741-1235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/ssj.30.4.415