Margaret Macneill

Biographic Data

ID314508
NAMEMargaret Macneill
GIVEN NAMESMargaret
FAMILY NAMEMacneill
SIGNATUREMACNEILL M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0001-8421-8418
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS55
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Dying by the sword

    Open AccessMargaret Macneill, Maire MacneillARTICLEExcursions Journal2020

    How ought a gentleman in the early eighteenth century to behave? This question confounded contemporary writers in search of an ideologically pure version of manliness, and it is this that I will use as a starting point for my presentation. I will briefly discuss the stereotypical figure of manliness during the Restoration period—the rake, who drank, gambled, whored, and duelled—and how he exhibited traits that writers no longer wanted to encourag…

  • Gender relations, gender-based violence and sport for development and peace

    Open AccessLyndsay Hayhurst, Margaret Macneill et al.ARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2014Cited by: 9References: 3

  • The weight of expectation

    Graham Knight, Nicole Neverson et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of the…2007References: 3

    This paper compares French- and English-language Canadian television coverage of Australian Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman during the 2000 Olympics using a narrative framework. The specific focus of the analysis is the representation of Freeman's political identity as an agent and symbol of Aboriginal reconciliation – the struggle for apology, reparatio, and social justice in the light of the history and legacy of colonial oppression and exclus…

  • The Disappointment Games

    Open AccessGraham Knight, Margaret Macneill et al.ARTICLEInternational Review for the…2005Cited by: 11References: 18

    This article provides a comparative analysis of news narratives of 'disappointment' in Canada and New Zealand in response to the 2000 Olympics. The theoretical framework draws on Luhmann's distinction between cognitive and normative orientations to expectations, contingency, and disappointment. The analysis examines how disappointment was thematized similarly as a decline in relation to past performance, but explained somewhat differently in the …

  • Networks

    Margaret MacneillARTICLESociology of Sport Journal1996Cited by: 24

    This paper presents an ethnographic study of the Canadian Television Network’s (CTV) production of the 1988 Winter Olympic ice-hockey tournament. Interview data and media documents are analyzed to uncover how CTV strategically employed hockey as a spectacle of accumulation to boost ratings, expand market positioning, and to attract sponsors while blocking media competitors. At another level of understanding, ethnographic observations of the telev…

  • The Musician in the Cave

    Margaret Macneill, Maire MacneillARTICLEBéaloideas1989

  • Ritual Horse-Bathing at Harvest Time

    Margaret Macneill, Maire MacneillARTICLEBéaloideas1988

  • Poll na Seantuinne and Poll Tigh Liabáin

    Margaret Macneill, Maire MacneillARTICLEBéaloideas1971

  • Irish Folklore as a Source for Research

    Margaret Macneill, Maire MacneillARTICLEJournal of the Folklore Institute1965Cited by: 2

  • The Festival of Lughnasa

    Stuart A Gallacher, Margaret Macneill et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1964Cited by: 9

  • The Festival of Lughnasa

    A T Lucas, Margaret Macneill et al.ARTICLEBéaloideas1962

  • Bealoideas, Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society

    Margaret Macneill, Maire Macneill et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1958