Add to ORKGThis dissertation, based on 56 in-depth, qualitative interviews with women who are Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) fans in two cities and qualitative content analysis of mainstream newspaper coverage of the WNBA, explores the dynamics of the uneasy relationship between lesbian's experiences as WNBA fans and the league's desire to market itself to heterosexual families with children. In the context of the decentering and fragmentation of the lesbian community (Stein 1992), I find that lesbian fans experience WNBA games as a temporary moment of centering. At the same time, through its marketing and self-presentation to the mainstream press, the WNBA appropriates this lesbian community and culture by both commodifying and erasin...
The presentation will provide an overview of academic literature from a range of disciplines, which ...
In this thesis I address the proliferation of representations of lesbians in North American mainstre...
This dissertation argues that Black lesbian literature, as well as film and other new media, is a di...
In May 2014, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) launched its Pride campaign and beca...
This work is a critical discourse analysis of the media (mis)representations and self-representation...
Prior research has demonstrated certain societal issues that impact not only female basketball playe...
Today, women participate in sports that had been previously reserved for men. In the past decade the...
Sociologists who examine the issue of lesbians in American sport in the 1980s and 1990s normally fou...
My dissertation, Counter-Narratives: Re-Evaluating Representations of Lesbian Subject-Identities in ...
Social rhetoric often portrays lesbians as hypersexualized, aggressive, and predatory. Yet, there is...
[[abstract]]The research object of this thesis is the spaces created by a lesbian basketball gatheri...
Feminist theorists have chronicled lesbian feminists’ role in developing a theoretical and political...
This article focuses on development of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), exploring...
This paper explores issues of sport, sponsorship, and consumption by critically interrogating the ma...
The purpose of this study was to examine how sport and lesbian-gay-bisexual resistance intersect wit...
The presentation will provide an overview of academic literature from a range of disciplines, which ...
In this thesis I address the proliferation of representations of lesbians in North American mainstre...
This dissertation argues that Black lesbian literature, as well as film and other new media, is a di...
In May 2014, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) launched its Pride campaign and beca...
This work is a critical discourse analysis of the media (mis)representations and self-representation...
Prior research has demonstrated certain societal issues that impact not only female basketball playe...
Today, women participate in sports that had been previously reserved for men. In the past decade the...
Sociologists who examine the issue of lesbians in American sport in the 1980s and 1990s normally fou...
My dissertation, Counter-Narratives: Re-Evaluating Representations of Lesbian Subject-Identities in ...
Social rhetoric often portrays lesbians as hypersexualized, aggressive, and predatory. Yet, there is...
[[abstract]]The research object of this thesis is the spaces created by a lesbian basketball gatheri...
Feminist theorists have chronicled lesbian feminists’ role in developing a theoretical and political...
This article focuses on development of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), exploring...
This paper explores issues of sport, sponsorship, and consumption by critically interrogating the ma...
The purpose of this study was to examine how sport and lesbian-gay-bisexual resistance intersect wit...
The presentation will provide an overview of academic literature from a range of disciplines, which ...
In this thesis I address the proliferation of representations of lesbians in North American mainstre...
This dissertation argues that Black lesbian literature, as well as film and other new media, is a di...
