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Gender and Sport Media

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Gender Relations in Sport

Part of the book series: Teaching Gender ((GEND))

Abstract

Thirty years of sport media and gender research will be summarized in this chapter. In what some scholars call mediasport, a site where sport is not experienced in the space where it happens but represented through media, differences such as gender, class, race, sexuality, identity, disability and nationalism are naturalized and reproduced (Bruce, 2013, p. 126).

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  1. School of Kinesiology, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, University of Minnesota, United States

    Nicole M. Lavoi PhD

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Lavoi, N.M. (2013). Gender and Sport Media. In: Roper, E.A. (eds) Gender Relations in Sport. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-455-0_3

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