Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines

by Linda K. Fuller
Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines

by Linda K. Fuller

Hardcover(1st ed. 2018)

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Overview

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women’s sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative to the International Olympic Committee, then introduces the underlying Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis theory used throughout the book’s analysis before delving into a literature review of female Olympians and Paralympians’ events. It includes a listing of noteworthy “firsts” in the field, followed by individual discussions of twenty-eight Summer and seven Winter events, analyzed according to their historical, rhetorical, and popular cultural representations. Women’s unique role(s) in the various events are discussed, particular athletes and Paralympic events are highlighted, and original tables are also included. At the end of each section, affiliated organizations and resources are included in this invaluable referential volume.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319767918
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 10/04/2018
Edition description: 1st ed. 2018
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda K. Fuller is Professor of Communications at Worcester State University, USA. She is author or editor of more than thirty books, including Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender, Sportscasters/Sportscasting, Sexual Sports Rhetoric, The Power of Global Community Media, and Female Olympians. The recipient of Fulbrights to Singapore and Senegal, she has also visited every host country of the Olympic Games. Visit her website at LKFullerSport.com.

Table of Contents

1. Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events

2. Summer Events

3. Winter Events

4. Comments and Predictions on Female Olympian and Paralympian Events

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