Abstract The 2012 London Olympic Games were heralded as the “Year of the Woman” as
every delegation sent a female athlete to compete in the games, and nearly 45% of all …

American football has long been central to the construction of masculinity in the United
States. Of the multiple masculine scripts promoting professional players' hegemonic …

The last quarter century has seen a dramatic movement of girls and women into sport, but
this social change is reflected unevenly in sports media. This study, a 5-year update to a 25 …

One of the long-standing trends in research on gender in sports media is the lack of
coverage of women's sport and the lack of respectful, serious coverage of women's sport. In …

This article examines English print media coverage of the England national women's football
(soccer) team during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. It draws on a content analysis of …

Scholars have produced a body of evidence demonstrating media portrayals of
sportswomen emphasize femininity/heterosexuality versus athletic competence and argue …

Elite and semielite athletes commonly experience mental health concerns and disorders.
Compared with men athletes, women athletes are at greater risk of a range of psychological …

In 2005, the Journal of Sport Management printed Wendy Frisby's Earle F. Zeigler Lecture.
The main thrust of Frisby's presentation was that critical social science is an underutilized …

In this commentary on Cooky, Messner, and Hextrum's (2013) article “Women Play Sport, but
not on TV: A Longitudinal Study of Televised News Media,” Mary Jo Kane assesses key …

Based on interview research, this study examined how master female coaches based in the
United Kingdom experienced relations with men within their profession. Using a feminist …