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Athletes, sexual assault, and trials by media : narrative immunity /
Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;
22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases involving Australian footballers amount to ""trials by media"", trials that result in acquittal. The stories told about footballers and women in the news media evoke stereotypes such as the ""gold digger"", ""woman scorned"" and the ""predatory woman"", which cast doubt on the alleged victims' cla |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135123529 1135123527 9780415658386 0415658381 9781299148291 1299148298 9781135123512 1135123519 9780203076071 0203076079 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |