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Summary:

This book examines the most prolific international womens football tournamentthe FIFA Womens World Cupthrough media, fandom and how mediated womens soccer can improve on a global scale. Womens soccer has exploded in terms of media exposure, television audiences and live spectatorship. This book explores those macro-level issues, while also digging into micro-level topics such as Megan Rapinoes celebrations and political activism, VAR reviews, LGBTQ imagery, and cultural obstacles for womens football in Central-Eastern Europe and Nigeria. Using an interdisciplinary approach, scholars look at issues through the lenses of feminist theory, cultural studies, rhetorical criticism, political economy, performative sport fandom, autoethnography, and more. Thus, the book is important reading for students, researchers and media practitioners with interests in womens soccer, gender in sports media, coverage of womens sport, and sport fandom. Molly Yanity is Associate Professor of Journalism at Quinnipiac University, USA. Danielle Sarver Coombs is Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at Kent State University, USA.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• News coverage of the U.S. Womens National Team: Reinforcing or negating perpetuated discriminatory standards
• Le Moment de Briller? : Examining Frances media coverage of Les Bleues and the 2019 FIFA Womens World Cup France
• Utterly ashamed of their behavior : Examining the media coverage of Cameroon vs. England in the 2019 FIFA Womens World Cup
• Perhaps take back whether everyone likes VAR : An analysis of broadcaster discourse of 2019 World Cup VAR reviews
• Images, commentary and narratives made with memes from the 2019 FIFA Womens Womens World Cup
• You Come at the Queen, You Best Not Miss: Post-Colonial Representations of the U.S. Womens National Soccer Team During the 2019 World Cup
• Megan Rapinoes Power Pose : Informing and influencing fan performances
• OHaras kiss: Coming out moment or conventional celebration?
• Being there, being here: What critical field methods can tell us about the 2019 FIFA Womens World Cup
• A (somewhat) accidental sports tourist: Watching the FIFA Womens World Cup tournaments in different countries
• Nigerian female football, ambivalence and struggle in the shadows
• Rebel, Rebel! How Megan Rapinoes celebrity activism forges new paths for athletes
• Beyond the World Cup: Womens football in Central-Eastern Europe
• FIFAs Feminist Foot Soldiers: Case studies on Australia, Aotearoa and who benefits from promoting the Womens World Cup
• Concluding Thoughts.

Contributors:

Yanity, Molly , editor

Coombs, Danielle Sarver , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

FIFA Women's World Cup (2019 : France)

Soccer for women — Social aspects

FIFA Women's World Cup

Soccer for women

Social aspects

France

General Notes:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GV943.52019 .F543 2021eb

ISBNs:

9783030754013 (electronic bk.)
3030754014 (electronic bk.)
3030754006 [Invalid]
9783030754006 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1263986183