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Author/Creator:McClearen, Jennifer, author.
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Title:Fighting Visibility : Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC / Jennifer McClearen.
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ISBN:9780252052637
9780252043734
9780252085727
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Publication:Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
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Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
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Copyright notice date: ©2021.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (230 pages).
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Links:Online book
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Summary:"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"--
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Variant and related titles:Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
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Series:Studies in sports media
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Contents: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.
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Subjects: Women in popular culture--20th century.
Discrimination in sports.
Feminism and sports.
Mixed martial arts.
Women martial artists.
Mass media and women.
Women in mass media.
Mass media and sports.
Women martial artists.
Women in popular culture.
Women in mass media.
Mixed martial arts.
Mass media and women.
Mass media and sports.
Feminism and sports.
Discrimination in sports.
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Also listed under:Project Muse. distributor
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16703314