Athletes, sexual assault, and 'trials by media' : narrative immunity / / Deb Waterhouse-Watson
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| Autore: |
Waterhouse-Watson Deb.
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| Titolo: |
Athletes, sexual assault, and 'trials by media' : narrative immunity / / Deb Waterhouse-Watson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/83 |
| Soggetto topico: | Soccer players - Sexual behavior |
| Soccer players - Sexual behavior - Australia | |
| Mass media and sports | |
| Mass media and sports - Australia | |
| Public opinion - Australia | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Athletes, Sexual Assault, and "Trials by Media" NarrativeImmunity; Copyright; Contents; A Note on Terminology; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Story of Rape: Narrating Sexual Assault Involving Footballers; 2 Narrative Immunity: Patterns of Deflecting Blame; 3 Narrative Exile: Silencing the Feminine; 4 The Male Footballer's Imaginary Body: Legitimating Sexual Violence; 5 Rape Is Not a Team Sport: Militarism, Alcohol and Team Bonding; 6 The Official Story: Bad Apples, Heroes, and (Naughty) Little Boys; 7 Fighting Words: Alternative Strategies for Narrating Sexual Assault |
| Conclusion: Breaking the DifférendAfterword: The End of an Affair; Appendix 1: Reported Cases of Footballer Sexual Assault, 1998-2011; Appendix 2: Tables of Cited Television Programs; Appendix 3: AFL and NRL Clubs and Nicknames; Appendix 4: Glossary of Australian News Outlets; Notes; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases involving Australian footballers amount to ""trials by media"", trials that result in acquittal. The stories told about footballers and women in the news media evoke stereotypes such as the ""gold digger"", ""woman scorned"" and the ""predatory woman"", which cast doubt on the alleged victims' cla |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Athletes, sexual assault, and 'trials by media |
| ISBN: | 1-135-12351-9 |
| 0-203-07607-9 | |
| 1-299-14829-8 | |
| 1-135-12352-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786271403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society