TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘You had to cover nadia comaneci’
T2 - ‘Points of change’ in coverage of women’s sport
AU - Antunovic, Dunja
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - In the 1970s, women’s sport underwent significant change in the United States resulting in an increase of participation opportunities and funding at the interscholastic, intercollegiate, professional and international levels. Yet, media outlets continued to ignore women and, at best, portray them in gender stereotypical ways. Considering the lack of progress for women in sports media coverage, this study employs sport historian Jaime Schultz’s ‘points of change’ framework in order to identify those moments that constituted an ideological shift in the process of covering women’s sport. Drawing upon oral history interviews with journalists who wrote about women’s sport in the 1970s and 1980s, this research provides a deeper look into how journalists experienced and addressed the shifting gender ideologies of the time period. Journalists’ memories, accompanied by their articles, reveal how media practitioners negotiated meanings about femininity and athleticism in response to events that challenged deeply embedded assumptions about gender and its intersections wiThethnicity, race and sexuality. This exploratory research, thus, identifies several ‘points of change’-or points of struggle, conflict and resistance-and calls for a re-periodization of the history of women’s sports coverage.
AB - In the 1970s, women’s sport underwent significant change in the United States resulting in an increase of participation opportunities and funding at the interscholastic, intercollegiate, professional and international levels. Yet, media outlets continued to ignore women and, at best, portray them in gender stereotypical ways. Considering the lack of progress for women in sports media coverage, this study employs sport historian Jaime Schultz’s ‘points of change’ framework in order to identify those moments that constituted an ideological shift in the process of covering women’s sport. Drawing upon oral history interviews with journalists who wrote about women’s sport in the 1970s and 1980s, this research provides a deeper look into how journalists experienced and addressed the shifting gender ideologies of the time period. Journalists’ memories, accompanied by their articles, reveal how media practitioners negotiated meanings about femininity and athleticism in response to events that challenged deeply embedded assumptions about gender and its intersections wiThethnicity, race and sexuality. This exploratory research, thus, identifies several ‘points of change’-or points of struggle, conflict and resistance-and calls for a re-periodization of the history of women’s sports coverage.
KW - Journalism
KW - Media coverage
KW - Oral history
KW - Social change
KW - Women’s sport
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U2 - 10.1080/09523367.2016.1254623
DO - 10.1080/09523367.2016.1254623
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84995503982
VL - 33
SP - 1551
EP - 1573
JO - International Journal of the History of Sport
JF - International Journal of the History of Sport
SN - 0952-3367
IS - 13
ER -