| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 164 pages) |
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Sports, media, and society |
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Sports, media, and society.
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| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface -- The Pregame Show -- 1. Postfeminism, White Femininity, and Sportscasting's Double Standards -- 2. Sportscasting's Glass Booth -- 3. Gendered Offline and Online Harassment in Sportscasting -- 4. The Woman Sportscaster's Affective Labor -- The Postgame Show |
| Summary |
On the Sidelines is an interdisciplinary examination of the current state of gender relations and representation within the sports media industry |
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"When sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men's sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Harrison weaves in-depth interviews with women sportscasters, focus groups with sports fans, and a collection of media products to argue that gendered neoliberalism-a cluster of exclusionary twenty-first-century feminisms-maintains this status quo. Spinning a cohesive narrative, Harrison shows how sportscasting's dependence on gendered neoliberalism broadly places the onus on women for their own success despite systemic sexism and racism. As a result, women in the industry are left to their own devices to navigate double standards, bias in hiring and development for certain on-air positions, harassment, and emotional labor. Through the lens of gendered neoliberalism, On the Sidelines examines each of these challenges and analyzes how they have been reshaped and maintained to construct a narrow portrait of the ideal neoliberal female sportscaster. Consequently, these challenges are taken for granted as 'natural,' sustaining women's marginalization in the sportscasting industry."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed October 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Sports journalism -- United States
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Women sportscasters -- United States
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Sexual harassment -- United States
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Neoliberalism -- United States
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Feminism -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women sportscasters
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Sports journalism
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Sexual harassment
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Neoliberalism
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Feminism
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DiCaro, Julie, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781496227423 |
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1496227425 |
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9781496227409 |
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1496227409 |
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