Sexual Sports Rhetoric
Historical and Media Contexts of Violence
©2010
Textbook
X,
288 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- X, 288
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433105074
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433105081
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- gender language violence Sport
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurtam Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. X, 288 pp.
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