Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433105098 ISBN 13: 9781433105098

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

Synopsis

Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts is concerned with wider, international applications of language to sport. Topics discussed range from women’s volleyball uniforms, ballroom dancing, female athletes as victims, soccer fans, nudity debates, homophobia, misogyny, Title IX, NASCAR, extreme sports, and trekking, to Japanese sports reports, Canadian hockey, sailors in the French press, British portrayals of Wimbledon champs, Australian heroes, German sports editorials, and masculinity relative to Mount Everest.

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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: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence (Peter Lang, 2009). Fuller was awarded Fulbrights to teach in Singapore and do HIV/AIDS research in Senegal. Her website is: www.LKFullerSport.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433105098
• ISBN 13: 9781433105098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Fuller Linda K.