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Fun reading that has informed vRm’s writing:

  • Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2003. Print.
  • Bount, Rachel, Marie Hardin, and Angela Ruggiero. “Facing Off Over Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Women’s Sports.” Distinguished Lecture Series. Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport. University of Minnesota. 19 October 2009. Web.
  • Buysse, Jo Ann M., and Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert. “Constructions of Gender in Sport: An Analysis of Intercollegiate Media Guide Cover Photographs.” Gender & Society, 18.1 (2004): 66. Web.
  • Buysse, Jo Ann, and Mary Jo Kane. “Intercollegiate Media Guides as Contested Terrain: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Sociology of Sport Journal 22.2 (2005): 214. Web.
  • Cooky, Cheryl, and Mary McDonald. “If You Let Me Play”: Young Girls’ Insider-Other Narratives of Sport.” Sociology of Sport Journal 22.2 (2005): 158-177. Web.
  • Dallaire, Christine, and Steph MacKay. “Campus Newspaper Coverage of Varsity Sports: Getting Closer to Equitable and Sports-related Representations of Female Athletes?” International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 44.1 (2009): 25-40. Web.
  • Foucault, Michel. “The Discourse on Language.” Trans. Rupert Sawyer. 1971. Print.
  • Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Print.
  • Hardin, Marie, and Erin Elizabeth Whiteside. “The Power of ‘Small Stories:’ Narratives and Notions of Gender Equality in Conversations about Sport.” Sociology of Sport Journal 26.2 (2009): 255. Web.
  • Meân, Lindsey J. “Identity and Discursive Practice: Doing Gender on the Football Pitch.” Discourse & Society 12.6 (2001): 789-815. CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. Web.
  • Meân, Lindsey J. “Making Masculinity and Framing Femininity.” Examining Identity in Sports Media. Eds. Andrew C. Billings and Heather L. Hundley. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2010. 65-86. Print.
  • Meân, Lindsey J., and Jeffrey W. Kassing. “”I would just Like to be Known as an Athlete”: Managing Hegemony, Femininity, and Heterosexuality in Female Sport.” Western Journal of Communication 72.2 (2008): 126-44. Web.
  • Morris, Pam, ed. The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2003. Print.
  • Quintilian. Institutes of Oratory. Trans. John Selby Watson. 1856. Print.
  • Tuana, Nancy, et al, eds. Revealing Male Bodies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Print.

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