Journal article
White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Sociology of sport journal, Vol.37(1), pp.36-46
03/2020
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Abstract
In this article we analyze images of sportswomen from four media outlets over the course of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. Through visual discourse analysis we find that despite structural changes to increase gender equality at the Commonwealth Games-which for the first time ensured equal opportunities for men and women to win medals-sportswomen were still depicted in a very narrow way, and intersectional representations were mainly excluded. Though the quantity of images of women had increased, the 'quality' of these images was poor in terms of representing sportswomen in their diversity. We still have far to go if we are to embrace women in their multiplicity-and to recognize that women can be strong, capable, butch, femme, and varied in their range of expressions of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.
Details
- Title
- White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Creators
- Adele Pavlidis - Griffith UniversityMillicent Kennelly - Griffith UniversityLaura Rodriguez Castro - Griffith University
- Publication Details
- Sociology of sport journal, Vol.37(1), pp.36-46
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publ Inc
- Number of pages
- 11
- Identifiers
- 991013097818202368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article