Overview
- Highlights the progress made by female athletes throughout the history of the Olympics
- Analyzes a variety of historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural issues that women in the Olympic games have faced
- Includes data that has never been assembled within the study of the Olympic games
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About the author
Linda K. Fuller is Professor of Communications at Worcester State University, USA. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than 20 books and 250 professional publications and conference reports. Her books include Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (Palgrave, 2006), African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises (Palgrave, 2008), Women, War, and Violence: Personal Perspectives and Global Activism (Palgrave, 2010), and The Power of Global Community Media (Palgrave, 2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Female Olympians
Book Subtitle: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline
Authors: Linda K. Fuller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58281-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59481-5Published: 08 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95874-0Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58281-2Published: 07 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 220
Topics: Media and Communication, Gender Studies, Feminism, Popular Science in Sports, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Structure, Social Inequality