"Feeling much smaller than you know you are": The fragmented professional identity of female sports journalists

Marie Hardin, Stacie Shain

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Abstract

Interviews with women working as sports journalists showed that they must negotiate several tensions, including balancing their conflicting identities as woman and as professional journalist. Nevertheless, in the end, they also saw the two as compatible. They fell along a spectrum of resistance to traditional values in sports and journalism, providing evidence of cracks in hegemonic notions of what it means to be a woman covering sports.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)322-338
Number of pages17
JournalCritical Studies in Media Communication
Volume23
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Communication

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