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"Game Time is My Time -- I Get to Define That" : Gender, Identity, and the National Football League's Female Fans

2014 Bloggers
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Book Synopsis "Game Time is My Time -- I Get to Define That" : Gender, Identity, and the National Football League's Female Fans by : Traci Yates

Download or read book "Game Time is My Time -- I Get to Define That" : Gender, Identity, and the National Football League's Female Fans written by Traci Yates. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on existing literature relatively little is known about the female football fan in America. Previous research has acknowledged that these women exist, often in startling proportions. It has also identified some of the reasons why they attend the game and some of the perceived benefits of their participation as fans (Clark, Apostolopoulou, & Gladden, 2009; Dietz-Uhler, Harrick, End, & Jacquemotte, 2000). Yet we do not know the value they place on their fan identities, nor how they manage to negotiate being both women and fans in a sport environment that both subtly and not-so-subtly continues to reinforce the model of hegemonic masculinity. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to explore how the identities of female fans of the National Football League (NFL) were constructed and negotiated through the language used to describe their experiences. To that end, 35 blog posts from OnHerGame a website dedicated to female sports fans, during the 2012-2013 NFL season were collected and five women who self-identify as National Football League (NFL) fans and currently write for the site were interviewed for this study; in addition, my own bracketing interview (Pollio, Henley, & Thompson, 1997) was also included. The resulting data were analyzed using feminist poststructural discourse analysis (FPDA), revealing three major patterns of discourse: a) reproduction, b) resistance, and c) reinscription. Reproductive discourse included language that reinforced hegemonic ideas about football as male space (e.g., women as less knowledgeable and primarily heterosexually interested in the men who play), while resistant discourse was often employed in an effort to defy these stereotyped subject positions (e.g., portraying female fans as competent, knowledgeable and authentic). Though women largely produced these two forms in their online posts, interviews with participants revealed a third pattern whereby female fans reinscribed reproductive discourse practices in an effort to differentiate themselves from other women (e.g., assuming other women do not know, are not interested).

New Sporting Femininities

2018-06-25 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2018-06-25
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis New Sporting Femininities by : Kim Toffoletti

Download or read book New Sporting Femininities written by Kim Toffoletti. This book was released on 2018-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection critically explores new and emerging models of female athleticism in an era characterised as postfeminist. It approaches postfeminism through a critical lens to investigate new forms of politics being practised by women in physical activity, sport and online spaces at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and ability. New Sporting Femininities features chapters on celebrity athletes such as Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey, alongside studies of the online fitspo movement and women’s growing participation in activities like roller derby, skateboarding and football. In doing so, it highlights key issues and concerns facing diverse groups of women in a rapidly changing gender-sport landscape. This collection sheds new light on the complex and often contradictory ways that women’s athletic participation is promoted, experienced and embodied in the context of postfeminism, commodity feminism and emerging forms of popular feminism.

The Feminization of Sports Fandom

2017-05-08 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2017-05-08
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis The Feminization of Sports Fandom by : Stacey Pope

Download or read book The Feminization of Sports Fandom written by Stacey Pope. This book was released on 2017-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women fans have entered the traditionally male domain of the sports stadium in growing numbers in recent years. Watching professional sport is important for women for so many reasons, but their expectations and experiences have been largely ignored by academics. This book tackles these shortcomings in the literature and sheds new light on the many ways in which women become sports fans. This groundbreaking study is the first to focus on the phenomenon of the feminization of sports fandom. Including original research on football and rugby union in the UK, it looks at the increasing opportunities for women to become sports fans in contemporary society and critically examines the way this form of leisure is valued by women. Drawing upon feminist thinking and intersectionality, it shows how women from different social classes and age groups consume the spectacle of sport. This book is fascinating reading for any student or scholar interested in sport and leisure studies, sociology and gender or women’s studies.

Defining Sport Communication

2016-10-14 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2016-10-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Defining Sport Communication by : Andrew C. Billings

Download or read book Defining Sport Communication written by Andrew C. Billings. This book was released on 2016-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining Sport Communication is a comprehensive resource addressing core topics and issues, including humanistic, organizational, relational, and mediated approaches to the study of sport communication. It provides foundational work in sport communication for students and scholars, reflecting the abundance of research published in recent years and the ever-increasing interest in this area of study. Bringing together scholars from various epistemological viewpoints within communication, this volume provides a unique opportunity for defining the breadth and depth of sport communication research. It will serve as a seminal reference for existing scholarship while also providing an agenda for future research.

The Advocate

2004-01-20
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Release : 2004-01-20
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Download or read book The Advocate written by . This book was released on 2004-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

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