Strike a Pose! The Femininity Effect in Collegiate Women’s Sport

Musto, Michela; McGann, PJ

doi:10.1123/ssj.2015-0034

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“…Whether one starts from gender order or the matrix of domination also has implications for theorizing femininities. Scholars often cite both Connell (1987, 1995) and Collins (1990, 2004) without reconciling the differences in their conceptualization of core concepts (e.g., Cole and Zucker 2007; Musto and McGann 2016). The implications of these different ways of thinking come into sharp relief when femininities are considered, as illustrated in Table 1.…”

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Hegemonic Femininities and Intersectional Domination

Hamilton

Armstrong

Seeley

et al. 2019

Sociological Theory

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We examine how two sociological traditions account for the role of femininities in social domination. The masculinities tradition theorizes gender as an independent structure of domination; consequently, femininities that complement hegemonic masculinities are treated as passively compliant in the reproduction of gender. In contrast, Patricia Hill Collins views cultural ideals of hegemonic femininity as simultaneously raced, classed, and gendered. This intersectional perspective allows us to recognize women striving to approximate hegemonic cultural ideals of femininity as actively complicit in reproducing a matrix of domination. We argue that hegemonic femininities reference a powerful location in the matrix from which some women draw considerable individual benefits (i.e., a femininity premium) while shoring up collective benefits along other dimensions of advantage. In the process, they engage in intersectional domination of other women and even some men. Our analysis re-enforces the utility of analyzing femininities and masculinities from within an intersectional feminist framework.

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Hegemonic Femininities and Intersectional Domination

Hamilton

Armstrong

Seeley

et al. 2019

Sociological Theory

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“…Research also finds that broadcast coverage depicts men’s events in more visually exciting ways by using more camera angles, shot types, and special effects (Greer, Hardin, and Homan 2009). Sports media coverage also characterizes women athletes as sexual objects (Messner and Montez De Oca 2005; Kim and Sagas 2014), depicts women off the court and out of uniform (Buysse and Embser-Herbert 2004), and emphasizes women’s adherence to heterofemininity (Cooky, Messner, and Hextrum 2013; Musto and McGann 2016). When coupled with the overwhelmingly large quantitative coverage of men’s sports, the dominant framing of women in sports media has been historically to build audience interest in men’s sports and to mute the challenge women’s athleticism poses to ideologies of natural male superiority (Kane 1995; Messner 1988).…”

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“From Fizzle to Sizzle!” Televised Sports News and the Production of Gender-Bland Sexism

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This article draws upon data collected as part of a 25-year longitudinal analysis of televised coverage of women's sports to provide a window into how sexism operates during a postfeminist sociohistorical moment. As the gender order has shifted to incorporate girls' and women's movement into the masculine realm of sports, coverage of women's sports has shifted away from overtly denigrating coverage in 1989 to ostensibly respectful but lackluster coverage in 2014. To theorize this shift, we introduce the concept of "genderbland sexism," a contemporary gender framework that superficially extends the principles of merit to women in sports. Televised news and highlight shows frame women in uninspired ways, making women's athletic accomplishments appear lackluster compared to those of men's. Because this "bland" language normalizes a hierarchy between men's and women's sports while simultaneously avoiding charges of overt sexism, this article

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“…Notably, US studies often consider variables such as race and institutional division (Musto and McGann, 2016), but these factors totally disappear in East Asian studies. In terms of race as a variable, many East Asian countries lack such diversity.…”

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Media portrayal of sportswomen in East Asia: A systematic review

Xue

Huang

Qilin

et al. 2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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It has been widely recognized that women in Western countries are marginalized in the sports field, and sports media is one of the institutions that strengthens such trivialization. However, there are very few studies investigating women in sports in countries outside of Europe and the USA. The aim of this study is to review how sportswomen are portrayed in sports media in China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea. East Asian media is congruous in its disparities regarding quantity of coverage between domestic athletes and abroad athletes, between sportsmen and sportswomen, and between international events and local events. Narratives and commentary focus on nationalism, appropriate femininity, non-sports related aspects of sportswomen’s lives, and the dual identities of sportswomen. Some slight differences regarding quantity, narratives and commentary exist between the four countries. In its current state, scholarly research on media images of sportswomen is contradictory and too limited. Overall, more studies regarding how sportswomen are represented in East Asian media are needed, with further considerations of social media and media autonomy while making essential connections to social and cultural contexts.

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Strike a Pose! The Femininity Effect in Collegiate Women’s Sport

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Hegemonic Femininities and Intersectional Domination

Hegemonic Femininities and Intersectional Domination

“From Fizzle to Sizzle!” Televised Sports News and the Production of Gender-Bland Sexism

Media portrayal of sportswomen in East Asia: A systematic review

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