By P. Markula
This booklet examines how ladies athletes have been represented in international media insurance in the course of the 2004 Olympic video games. via feminist theorizing and qualitative textual research, the participants speak about sexualisation, nationalism, luck, failure and the [in]visibility of girls athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the united states.
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