Sportswomen and Social Media: Bringing Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism, and Neoliberal Feminism Into Conversation

In this article, we take seriously the challenges of making sense of a sporting (and media) context that increasingly engages female athletes as active, visible, and autonomous, while inequalities pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, and class remain stubbornly persistent across sport institutions...

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Published in:	Journal of sport and social issues 2017-10, Vol.41 (5), p.359-383
Main Authors:	Thorpe, Holly, Toffoletti, Kim, Bruce, Toni
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Athletes Discourses Females Feminism Feminist criticism Gender relations Inequality Internalization Mass media images Neoliberalism Postfeminism Race Self concept Self representation Sexuality Social media Social networks Sports Women
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