"Babes" & Boards: Opportunities in New Millennium Sport?  

Oleh:

Rinehart, Robert

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 29 no. 3 (Aug. 2005), page 232-255.
Topik: action sports; women; advertising
Fulltext: 232.pdf (540.71KB)

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The proliferation of action or extreme sports in recent years leads to a reassessment of fundamental, foundational questions regarding the nature of sport. One such question is Does the much-vaunted alternative ethos of action sports lead to a concomitant paradigm shift in fundamental attitudes toward race, class, or gender differences within these new sport forms? In this article, the focus is on advertising in slick, national skating magazines and more particularly on the gendered nature of advertising and how it reflects and promotes gender segmentation in markets. In examining such print advertising, several metathemes emerge: There are images that (a) reify the naturalizedmaleness ofNorth American sport; (b) objectify girls and woman as a naturalized position; (c) objectify girls and woman in sexualized manners, so that they createmisogynist views in their audiences; and (d) attempt to set up the brand advertisers as outlaws, as oppositional to mainstream sport culture.

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