Authors
Cheryl Cooky, Faye L Wachs, Michael Messner, Shari L Dworkin
Publication date
2010/6/1
Journal
Sociology of Sport Journal
Volume
27
Issue
2
Pages
139-159
Publisher
Human Kinetics, Inc.
Description
Using intersectionality and hegemony theory, we critically analyze mainstream print news media’s response to Don Imus’ exchange on the 2007 NCAA women’s basketball championship game. Content and textual analysis reveals the following media frames: “invisibility and silence”; “controlling images versus women’s self-definitions”; and, “outside the frame: social issues in sport and society.” The paper situates these media frames within a broader societal context wherein 1) women’s sports are silenced, trivialized and sexualized, 2) media representations of African-American women in the U. S. have historically reproduced racism and sexism, and 3) race and class relations differentially shape dominant understandings of African-American women’s participation in sport. We conclude that news media reproduced monolithic understandings of social inequality, which lacked insight into the intersecting nature of …
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C Cooky, FL Wachs, M Messner, SL Dworkin - Sociology of Sport Journal, 2010