@article{ref1,
title="The death of a female boxer: media, sport, nationalism, and gender",
journal="Journal of sport and social issues",
year="2011",
author="McCree, Roy Dereck",
volume="35",
number="4",
pages="327-349",
abstract="This article examines the &quot;gendered nationalism&quot; and &quot;gendered media sporting nation&quot; theses in relation to female involvement in sport based mainly on a content analysis of media narratives surrounding the death of a young female boxer in Trinidad in 2009. The nature of this reaction disproves a dominant view that female athletes or sports have been either excluded or marginalized from constructions of nation, nationalism, and sport hero for the narratives were constitutive of a broader &quot;narrative of nation&quot; that was invoked by her death. However, at the same time, it was found that Salandy was still subject to &quot;conventional gendered representational techniques&quot; by the media and that female boxing in general still suffers from a lack of legitimacy, sexism, and male domination consistent with the global pattern, which contrasted sharply with the boxer's celebration as a national icon and underpinned her &quot;multiple imagery and contradictions&quot; as a role model.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0193-7235",
doi="10.1177/0193723511426290",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723511426290"
}