Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts
- ISBN-10
- 1433105098
- ISBN-13
- 9781433105098
- Category
- Gender identity
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Linda K. Fuller
Description
"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."--Publisher's description.
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