Friday, July 25, 2014

Influential Women



One of the major researchers who study women in sports is Marie Hardin. She’s a woman who teaches classes focused on sports and society at Penn State University. She has been published in countless journals including Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Sociology of Sport Journal, Sex Roles, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Sports Management and countless more of her articles can be found. Past careers of hers include newspaper reporter and editor and a freelance magazine writer. Her writings focus primarily around women in media, Title IX, and sport journalism.
           
 Another huge influenced writer of this particular topic is Katharina Lindner. She can be found teaching communication, media and culture at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses around gender theory, cultural theory, sport media, gender and sexuality, and queer theory, just to name a few. She has published writing regarding athleticism and cinema, dance in film, and sport and post feminism. She is currently working on research regarding specifically with queer critiques of traditional phenomenology.


The last person of interest to this particular topic is Tracy Everbach. She is currently teaching at the University of North-Texas. She has worked on a number of projects regarding gender equality. Her most influential work can be found in the past three years which include, Women’s Olympics, College Female Athletes, and Examining Gender Equity, just to name a few.

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