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Examining identity in sports media / editors, Heather L. Hundley, Andrew C. Billings. - Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2010. - viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examining identity in sports media / Andrew C. Billings and Heather L. Hundley -- The Rene Portland case : new homophobia and heterosexism in women's sports coverage / Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside -- Exploring the influence of mediated beauty : competitive female athletes' perceptions of ideal beauty in athletes and other women / Kim L. Bissell -- Making masculinity and framing femininity : FIFA, soccer, and World Cup websites / Lindsey J. Meân -- Gendered sports dirt : interrogating sex and the single beer commercial / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Hegemonic masculinity and the rogue warrior : Lance Armstrong as (symbolic) American / Bryan E. Denham and Andrea Duke -- Do you believe in nationalism? : American patriotism in miracle / Michael L. Butterworth -- The whiteness of sport media/scholarship / Mary G. McDonald -- A content analysis of racial representations of NBA athletes on sports illustrated magazine covers : 1970-2003 / Benjamin D. Goss, Andrew L. Tyler, and Andrew C. Billings -- Sporting images of disability : murderball and the rehabilitation of masculine identity / James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann -- The effects of outcome of mediated and live sporting events on sports fans' self- and social identities / Jennings Bryant and R. Glenn Cummins -- The institutional(ized) nature of identity in and around sport(s) / Kelby K. Halone.

ISBN: 9781412954594 (cloth) 1412954592 (cloth) 9781412954600 (pbk.) 1412954606 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2008046375

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gender identity.
Gender identity in mass media.
Communication in sports.

LC Class. No.: HQ1075 / .E95 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/83