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Imperialism and the 1999 Women's World Cup
| Title: | Imperialism and the 1999 Women's World Cup: representations of the United States and Nigerian national teams in the U.S. |
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| Name(s): |
Canning, Michele. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 2009 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: |
electronic electronic resource |
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| Extent: | viii, 145 p. : ill. (some col.). | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This research examines the U.S. media during the 1999 Women's World Cup from a feminist postcolonial standpoint. This research adds to current feminist scholarship on women and sports by de-centering the global North in its discourse. It reveals the bias of the media through the representation of the United States National Team as a universal "woman" athlete and the standard for international women's soccer. It further argues that, as a result, the Nigerian National Team was cast in simplistic stereotypes of race, class, ethnicity, and nation, which were often also appropriated and commodified. I emphasize that the Nigerian National Team resisted this construction and fought to secure their position in the global soccer landscape. I conclude that these biased representations, which did not fairly depict or value the contributions of diverse competing teams, were primarily employed to promote and sell the event to a predominantly white middle-class American audience. | |
| Identifier: | 321040873 (oclc), 192982 (digitool), FADT192982 (IID), fau:2973 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Michele Canning. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
World Cup (Soccer) FIFA Women's World Cup Women soccer players -- Nigeria Soccer for women -- United States Imperialism -- Psychological aspects Nationalism and sports Mass media and sports |
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| Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/192982 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
