Images of Sports Women: A review

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• 作者：Emma Sherry ; Angela Osborne ; Matthew Nicholson
• 关键词：Female athletes ; Media portrayal ; Sports images ; Review
• 刊名：Sex Roles
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：74
• 期：7-8
• 页码：299-309
• 全文大小：320 KB
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• 作者单位：Emma Sherry (1)
  Angela Osborne (1)
  Matthew Nicholson (1)
  
  1. Centre for Sport and Social Impact, La Trobe University, Room 104, Donald Whitehead Building, Bundoora campus, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Sexual Behavior
  Interdisciplinary Studies
  Sociology
  Anthropology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2762

文摘

Despite the steady increase in volume and quality of women’s sport participation over the last century, female athletes continue to be underrepresented across all platforms of the media. A range of mechanisms have been shown to contribute to media constructions of women’s sport, including the low volume of media attention, narrative focus, prominence of placement or scheduling, linguistic choices and visual representations of women’s sport. This review paper examines scholarly research on the role of print media images in the construction of attitudes towards and perceptions of women’s sport. Beginning with international research, the review thematically summarises selected literature to draw out some of the ways in which images are pressed into service in the sports media. Research from the Australasian region (Australia and New Zealand) is then reviewed and compared with the international research with a view to observing commonalities and differences. The review reveals that internationally and in Australasia, media images of sports women continue to fail to represent the realities of women’s sport performance. Some movement away from sexualisation is noted; however this appears to be occurring in concert with a slight reduction in terms of volume.