"I am not a cow": Challenging narratives of empowerment in teen girls sports fiction

Erin Whiteside; Marie Hardin; Lauren J. DeCarvalho; Nadia Martinez Carillo; Alexandra Nutter Smith

doi:10.1123/ssj.30.4.415

"I am not a cow": Challenging narratives of empowerment in teen girls sports fiction

Erin Whiteside, Marie Hardin, Lauren J. DeCarvalho, Nadia Martinez Carillo, Alexandra Nutter Smith

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This research examines two popular teen girls sports fiction series, called "Pretty Tough" and "Dairy Queen." The books are heavily premised on the idea of empowerment and are written in ways that invite the reader to see each protagonist's choices as agentic and even subversive. Our analysis points to the ways the discourse of empowerment obscures how girls are invited to adopt ideology toward sports that undermines their ability to experience sports on their own terms.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	415-434
Number of pages	20
Journal	Sociology of Sport Journal
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.30.4.415
State	Published - Dec 2013

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Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Sociology and Political Science

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