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Author:   Linda K. Fuller
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781433105081

ISBN 10:   143310508
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Linda K. Fuller: Introduction – Michael Atkinson: It’s Still Part of the Game: Violence and Masculinity in Canadian Ice Hockey – Margery Holman/Victoria Paraschak/Patricia Weir/Richard Moriarty: Representations of Sport Violence and Spousal Abuse – Michael A. Robidoux/Jochen G. Bocksnick: Playing beyond the Glass: How Parents Support Violence in Minor Hockey – Ellen J. Staurowsky: Reflections on Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in the Aftermath of 9/11 – David «Turbo» Thompson: Hot Wheels and High Heels: Gender Roles in Stock Car Racing – John Mark Dempsey: All-skates, Witch Wool, and a Blouse Full of Lungs: Dan Jenkins’ Use of Masculine Sexual Language – Anne E. Price: Football Hooliganism: A Rhetoric of Frustration and Honor – Robert Sirabian: Gender, Cross-dressing, and Sport in Lewis Nordan’s The All-Girl Football Team – Gina Daddario: Media, Masculinity, and The World’s Strongest Man: Exploring Postmodern Sports Programming – Joy Crissey Honea: Xclusion at the Winter X Games: The Marginalization of Women Athletes in Alternative Sport – Maureen Margaret Smith: The Jim Rome Show and Negotiations of Manhood: Surviving in «The Jungle» – Megan Chawansky: Put Me in, Ms. Coach: Sexual Rhetoric in the Locker Room – Linda K. Fuller: Foul Language: A Feminist Perspective on (American) Football Film Rhetoric – C. Richard King: Hail to the Chiefs: Race, Gender, and Native American Sports Mascots – Debra Merskin: Powerful or Pornographic? Photographs of Female Bodybuilders in Muscle & Fitness Magazine – John P. Elia/Jon B. Martin/Gust A. Yep: Off His Rocker: Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Violence in America’s Favorite Pastime – Shura Alexandra Gat: Wham! Bam! Thank You, Ma’am!: The Rhetoric Surrounding Female Professional Boxers – Jessica Hudson: Women Playing Rugby: Rejection of «The Girly» by Girls – Erin Reilly: All Bust and No Balls: Gender, Language, and Pool – Theresa A. Walton: Media Grappling with Female Success on the Mat: Tricia Saunders, Multiple-World Freestyle Wrestling Champion.

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The Editor: Linda K. Fuller (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts), Professor of Communications at Worcester State College and a Senior Fellow at Northeastern University, is the author/(co)editor of more than 20 books and over 250 professional publications and conference reports, including Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (2006), Sportscasting: Principles and Practices (2008), and Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts (Peter Lang, 2009). Fuller was awarded Fulbrights to teach in Singapore and do HIV/AIDS research in Senegal. Her website is: www.LKFullerSport.com.

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