An Imperceptible Difference: Visual and Textual Constructions of Femininity in Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Women

By J. Fink, Linda Jean Kensicki. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Uses and gratifications of a retired female athlete's twitter followers. (2010, background): “In contrast, female athletes usually receive little to no coverage in sports construed as more masculine or “gender inappropriate” for women, like rugby, softball, and competitive weightlifting (Fink & Kensicki, 2002).”
The Under Representation of Women in the Male Dominated Sport Workplace: Perspectives of Female Coaches (2010, background): “Fink and Kensicki (2002) suggest that these “sex-appropriate sports” are still favored for media representation of women.”
Athlete or Sex Symbol: What Boys Think of Media Representations of Female Athletes (2011, background): “Sexualized images depict an individual in provocative clothing or photograph an individual in such a way as to focus solely on sexual attributes; for example, centering attention on an athlete’s breasts (Fink and Kensicki 2002).”
Packaging the Games for Viewer Consumption: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nationality in NBC's Coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics (2007, background): “Differential media treatment of men and women athletes has been uncovered on a wide scale, from magazines (Fink & Kensicki, 2002) to newspapers (Eastman & Billings, 2000a) to television (Billings, Halone, & Denham, 2002; Tuggle & Owen, 1999).”
Where are the female athletes in Sports Illustrated? A content analysis of covers (2000–2011) (2013, background): “Likewise, Fink and Kensicki (2002) did not find greater female representation in SI articles and photographs for the three-year period after the 1996 Olympics.”
Communication in the Community of Sport: The Process of Enacting, (Re)Producing, Consuming, and Organizing Sport (2004, unknown): “For example, examinations of Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Women indicate that women athletes compared to male athletes were highly underrepresented in articles and photographs (Daddario, 1992; Fink & Kensicki, 2002).”
Gender in the Gym: Evaluation Concerns as Barriers to Women’s Weight Lifting (2010, background): “This aim complements past work on the sexualized or otherwise stereotypic ways that women are represented in popular visual media (e.g., Fink and Kensicki 2002 ).”