Women, Media and Sport: Challenging Gender Values [Paperback]

Pamela J. Creedon (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 14, 1994

This book - the first to link feminism, sport and media theory - provides a broad cultural studies orientation. In addition to a theoretical analysis, it provides a practical look at models of sport, media effects and the construction of the sportswoman and women's sports.

Divided into three parts, the book: provides an overview of the three areas; focuses on the print and broadcast media portrayal of women's sport, examining such issues as the relationship of sports promotion to media representations of women's sports and the ways in which sports reporting is taught to future journalists; and seeks to develop a new model for the future.

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About the Author

Pam Creedon, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Iowa, previously directed the J-MC program at Kent State University for seven years and was a faculty member at The Ohio State University for 10 years. An accredited business communicator (ABC), she spent 15 years as an editor and public relations practitioner before entering academe. Currently president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with 190 member colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada and eight countries, she is a member of the Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Advisory Board.  She serves on the editorial boards of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research. She has edited two books published by Sage: Women in Mass Communication and Women, Media and Sport, and co-edited Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication by Erlbaum.  She is a member of International Advisory Board of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.  She earned her M.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon and her B.A. from Mount Union College.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc (February 14, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803952341
• ISBN-13: 978-0803952348
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,028,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Molly Merryman's Film chapter shines, December 3, 1999

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This review is from: Women, Media and Sport: Challenging Gender Values (Paperback)

While much of this book is overly academic in its most negative definition (tedious minutae), Merryman's chapter on women, sports and cinema shines through. This chapter should be included in film anthologies, because it develops a female sports archetype utilized in cinema that is extremely useful for reconceptualizing the active female subject of male gaze.