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an investigation into the media representation of gender in sport

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To support this statement Boutiller and San-Giovanni (1983) report shows that there is very little newspaper coverage (text or photos) of women sports. The report mentioned that of the 1,200 covers in the first 25 years of publication, sports illustrated featured only 115 women on their covers. Similarly in Australian newspapers, only 1...
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The report mentioned that of the 1,200 covers in the first 25 years of publication, sports illustrated featured only 115 women on their covers. Similarly in Australian newspapers, only 1.3% of their space was contributed to women's sport (Mackay and Rowe, 1987). In fact when media coverage was devoted to women it tended to drift away from their performance and focus either on their beauty or image (Hargreaves, 1994) or to highlight female athletes becoming more masculine...
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