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The Power Play: Perspectives on Sports, Language and Gender, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Maktspelet: perspektiv på sport, språk och kön
This syllabus is valid: 2025-12-29 and until further notice
Course code: 1NS119
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Scandinavian Languages: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Head of Department of Language Studies, 2025-06-12

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

He Said, She Said: An Exploration of Male and Female Print Sports Journalist Tweets, Sports Coverage, and Language Style
Abisaid K, Joseph L, Li Bo
Included in:
Communication & sport
2013- :
Mandatory

Andreasson Jesper
Pojkflickan, fotbollsflatan och alla andra : Myt och verklighet i svensk damfotboll
Included in:
Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift


LIBRIS ID: fz9gh1jncmq82gcd
Mandatory

Reframing impairment? Continuity and change in media representations of disability through the Paralympic Games
Beacom Aaron, French Liam, Kendall Scott
Included in:
International Journal of Sport Communication
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics : 2015- :
Mandatory

21 years later: reflecting on femininity, masculinity, physicality and the English tabloid press
Clayton Ben, Dunn Gemma, Harris John
International review for the sociology of sports : 2025 :
Länk
Mandatory

One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Womens Televised Sports, 19892019
Cooky Cheryl, Council LaToya D., Messner Michael A.
Communication & Sport 9 (3): 34771. : 2021 :
Länk

The Rocker and the Heroine: Gendered Media Representations of Equestrian Sports at the 2012 Olympics
Hellborg Anna-Maria, Hedenborg Susanna
Sport in Society : 2015 :
Länk
Mandatory

Hellström John S
Sportens celebriteter : Björn Borg och Ingemar Stenmark i svensk press
Included in:
Celebritetsskapande från Strindberg till Asllani


LIBRIS ID: 20171371
Mandatory

Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals
Ho Michelle, Lim Wesley
Included in:
Media, culture & society
London : SAGE Publications : 1985- :
Länk
Mandatory

Koivula Nathalie
Gender stereotyping in televised media sport coverage
Included in:
Sex roles
New York : Plenum Press : 1975- :
LIBRIS ID: 9301368

Lundquist Wanneberg Pia
The sexualization of sport: A gender analysis of Swedish elite sport from 1967 to the present day
European Journal of Women's Studies. 18 (3): 265278 : 2011 :
Länk

How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction
Machin David, Mayr Andrea
Second edition : Los Angeles : SAGE : [2023] : 349 pages :
ISBN: 9781529772982
LIBRIS ID: s8f6rt08q5150l88
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O´Connell Stephen
Managing Disagreement to Avoid Confrontation in Sports Talk Radio
Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL : 2002 :
Länk
Mandatory

Beyond Caster as Object? Examining Media Constructions of Caster Semenya through Decolonial Thinking
Posbergh Anna, Clevenger Samuel M
Included in:
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
2011- :
Länk
Mandatory

Söderlund Hanna
”En skön filur”. Affekt och intimisering i anekdoter om längdskidåkare på tv
2024 :

LIBRIS ID: 3mnkcwrr1vh742m4
Mandatory

But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations
Taha R, Sailofsky D
Included in:
International review for the sociology of sport
London : Sage : 1999- :
Länk
Mandatory

Tolvhed Helena
Brassebönor, stålmän och svarta spöken. Idrottande kroppar i Ses bevakning av sommar-OS 1948-1980
Included in:
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap


LIBRIS ID: hz75080hfjpl8n5b
Mandatory

Därtill artiklar som lärarna anvisar, ca 100 sidor

One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–2019
Cooky Cheryl, Council LaToya D., Messner Michael A.
Communication & Sport 9 (3): 347–71. : 2021 :
Länk

Hedenborg Susanna
Unknown Soldiers and Very Pretty Ladies: Challenges to the Social Order of Sports in Post-War Sweden
Sport in History 29 (4): 601–22. doi : 2009 :
Länk

Hellström John S.
Idrottshjältar i media
Included in:
Sport management
Första upplagan : Stockholm : SISU Idrottsböcker : [2021] : 240 sidor :

Jarlbro Gunilla
Medier, genus och makt
Lund : Studentlitteratur : 2006 : 168 s. :
ISBN: 9144038232
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Koivula Nathalie
Gender in sport
Stockholm : Univ. : 1999 : [10], 85 s. :
ISBN: 9171539123
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Koivula Nathalie
Gender stereotyping in televised media sport coverage
Included in:
Sex roles
New York : Plenum Press : 1975- :

Larsson Håkan
Queer idrott : Annika Sörenstam, kvinnligheten och den jämställda idrotten
Included in:
Queersverige
Stockholm : Natur och Kultur : 2005 : 458, [1] s. :

Lindkvist Jonas
Från skogsbryn till masstart. Kommodifieringen av längdskidåkningens tv-sändningar från 1980-talet fram till 2015
2022 :

Lundquist Wanneberg Pia
The sexualization of sport: A gender analysis of Swedish elite sport from 1967 to the present day
European Journal of Women's Studies. 18 (3): 265278 : 2011 :
Länk

How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction
Machin David, Mayr Andrea
Second edition : Los Angeles : SAGE : [2023] : 349 pages :
ISBN: 9781529772982
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Söderlund Hanna
'Joking aside' : The power of rejections in humour
Sage Publications : 2023 :

Söderlund Hanna
»Nu blir ju alla pingisälskare arga.» : Humor, makt och kön i studiosamtal om längdskidor
2020 :

Söderlund Hanna
”En skön filur”. Affekt och intimisering i anekdoter om längdskidåkare på tv
2024 :

Tolvhed Helena
På damsidan : femininitet, motstånd och makt i svensk idrott 1920-1990
Göteborg : Makadam : 2015 : 295 s. :
Innehållsförteckning
ISBN: 9789170611858
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