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Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze : a feminist critical discourse analysis
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Peng, Yuzhu (Altman), Wu, Chunyan and Chen, Meng (2024) Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze : a feminist critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, 21 (1). pp. 34-51. doi:10.1080/17405904.2022.2098150 ISSN 1740-5904.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2098150
Abstract
This article offers a timely, critical analysis of the male gaze upon sportswomen in male Chinese fans’ consumption of sporting megaevents. We use the most popular Chinese-language sports fandom platform, Hupu, as the data repository and scrutinise the threads of male Hupu users’ postings about two elite sportswomen at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the case studies. Drawing on feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA), we elucidate the discursive strategies that male Chinese fans adopt to sexualise sportswomen and trivialise their accomplishments. The research findings showcase how China’s sports fandom has evolved as a masculine terrain, where men’s visions of asymmetrical gender power relations are discursively negotiated and rationalised.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women athletes -- China, Feminism and sports, Communication in sports, Mass media and sports -- China, Masculinity -- China, Feminist theory -- China, Critical discourse analysis, Fans (Persons), Sports spectators -- China, Sports spectators -- Social conditions, Women -- China -- Social conditions | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Discourse Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1740-5904 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2024 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 34-51 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17405904.2022.2098150 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 July 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 July 2022 |
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