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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"women’s sport"”.
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Stretching the Limits: journalism and gender politics in women’s sport
My work on the sports pages of the Sunday Times led to invitations to write two books on the emergence of elite female champions and two unauthorized biographies of female champions, all of which included original data and analysis of gender issues in sport. One of the first academic, …
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Toxicity Within the Women's Sport Social Media Discourse
… to explore the prevalence of toxicity within the women’s sport social media (SM) discourse. Specifically, the study sought to uncover how toxicity manifested in online networks as well as the influence of this activity on the fan experience and their behaviours. Two theoretical frameworks were …
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“An equal opportunity to watch, read about, meet and hear from”: An Analysis of CBC’s Gender Balance in Sport Programming Commitment
On International Women’s Day 2020, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced that it had made a commitment to gender-balanced coverage of sport and athlete stories in its original content. The purpose of this case study of CBC’s gender balance in sport programming commitment was to 1) …
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A History of English Women’s Cricket, 1880-1939
This thesis is a study of the history of women’s cricket from the 1880s until 1939. Although the primary focus of this thesis is the interwar years, it explores the earliest forms of women’s cricket to provide context for the motivation of individuals to promote the game as acceptable for women, …
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I Love Being their Last Coach: Analyzing the Career Pathways and Profiles of Women Head Coaches with Career Longevity in NCAA D-I
… and a continuing stagnation in the percentage of women in collegiate coaching positions since the inception of Title IX in 1972 (LaVoi, 2018a; Lapchick, 2017; Acosta & Carpenter, 2014). Although a number of researchers have examined why women leave coaching, limited attention has been given to …
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Female Equestrian Culture in France, 1600-1715
… riding within the scholarship on early modern women’s sport, elite femininity and corporeal culture in seventeenth-century France. It also positions the analysis of equestrian garments within current trends in fashion and dress history. Chapter I examines definitions of female athleticism in …
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The Biopsychosocial Benefits of Walking Football in the Welsh Coalfield Regions
… the Welsh Coalfield regions, and in relation to women’s sport, football has a rich history. Sport, despite past gender inequalities, remains an integral part of Welsh identity, with Walking Football being the latest manifestation of this. Walking Football is an adapted sport with potential …
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From masculine myths to girl power realities: The athletic female body and the legend of Title IX
… brought dramatic changes to America’s female sporting landscape. During this time, the athletic female body, once feared and considered deviant, has emerged as a nationally celebrated and highly commodified popular icon. According to popular narratives, this change in cultural perceptions can …
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The gendering of sports news: An investigation into the production, content and reception of sports photographs of athletes in New Zealand newspapers.
… content, meaning and reception of photographs of sportswomen featured in New Zealand newspapers, in order to establish the relationship between media representations and cultural understandings of sportswomen and women’s sport. The study adopts a feminist cultural studies perspective and questions …