Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433105071 ISBN 13: 9781433105074

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence deals with controversies surrounding the notion of sport violence added to the equation of gender and language. Topics discussed range from hooliganism, spousal abuse, and racial and/or gender orientation issues to literary, televised, filmic and photographic (pornographic?) images of sports violence. The sports represented include ice hockey, stock car racing, football, body building, baseball, boxing, rugby, wrestling, and pool.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

«Ballroom dancing, mountain climbing and female immigrant sports fans are among the refreshing topics examined in this new volume on sex and sports. Though sex and gender have been rigorously examined by sport scholars for more than two decades, the chapters in this edited work explore the results of new national and global configurations as they intersect with the sports world. Most importantly, this anthology reminds us that gender and language have played, and continue to play, a powerful role in the construction of experiences and meanings associated with sport consumption. Both students and scholars of sport will find the diverse and sophisticated offerings of this volume indispensable in furthering the dialogue.» (Susan G. Zieff, San Francisco State University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433105071
• ISBN 13: 9781433105074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Fuller Linda K.