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Title: Sexual Sports Rhetoric

Sexual Sports Rhetoric

Historical and Media Contexts of Violence

by Linda K. Fuller (Volume editor)
©2010 Textbook X, 288 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

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
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.

Biographical notes

Linda K. Fuller (Volume editor)

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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