She Wants to be a Sledgehammer
Tennis Femininities on British Television
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2348852 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Kennedy (0000-0002-0963-9041, Centre for Sport and Culture Studies in the School of Sport, Exercise and Leisure at the University of Surrey Roehampton, corresponding author), Eileen Kennedy (0000-0003-0509-9284) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-72 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0193723501251005 |
| OpenAlex | W2109219672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article presents a semiotic analysis of the representation of the Wimbeldon Championships on British television. It considers televised sport as a gendered genre, arguing that a gendered narrative exists within the televising of Wimbeldon. There is contradiction within this narrative: female tennis players escape an easy identification with a singular character function. The article draws on feminist film theory to explore the ambivalence of the televisual representation of tennis femininities
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Character (mathematics · Contradiction · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Semiotics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
Images of Sports Women
Bodies in Action
Features of femininity
Space Invaders at Wimbledon
Knowing your place and commanding space
Stereotyping by omission and commission
Sectarianism’ and Scottish football
Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen
Are the times changing enough? Print media trends across four decades
Is It Time for a Victory Lap
Television
Television
Contemporary Film Theory
Sporting Females
A Woman's Gotta Do … What a Man's Gotta Do? Cross-Dressing in the Western
Denial of Power in Televised Women’s Sports
Chilly Scenes of the 1992 Winter Games
Sport and the maintenance of masculine hegemony
Identity in Feminist Television Criticism
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled
Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2020 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |