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Fighting Visibility : Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC /
"Mixed martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures and investigates the complexities surround...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana, Chicago :
University of Illinois Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Fighting Visibility : |b Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC / |c Jennifer McClearen. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Studies in sports media | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Visibility and difference in the UFC -- Developing a millennial sports media brand -- Affect and the Rousey effect -- Gendering the American Dream -- The labor of visibility on social media -- The fight for labor equity -- Coda: On love and violence. | |
| 520 | |a "Mixed martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures and investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference-whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual-to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC's half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others. Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand-and the ways women paid the price for success"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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