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- Title
"From Beach Nymph to Gridiron Amazon": Media Coverage of Women in American Football, 1934–1979.
- Authors
Taylor, Katie; Linden, Andrew D.; Antunovic, Dunja
- Abstract
Although American football has primarily been a sport populated by boys and men, girls and women have participated for over 100 years. The media have covered these stories since the turn of the 20th century. Informed by feminist sport studies literature, this research examines media coverage of women footballers in the United States by conducting a textual analysis of over 100 articles from 1934 to 1979. Journalists who covered women encroaching on conventional men's space (i.e., American gridirons) simultaneously attempted to demonstrate women's athleticism and reified dichotomies between feminine and masculine norms and values in U.S. society. Our research suggests that representations of women in football align with gendered hierarchies of sport cultures.
- Subjects
WOMEN football players; WOMEN'S sports management; SEX discrimination in sports; CONTENT analysis; JOURNALISTS' attitudes
- Publication
Communication & Sport, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 3, p458
- ISSN
2167-4795
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2167479519871961