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_b.M33 2021
100 1 _aMcClearen, Jennifer.
245 1 0 _aFighting visibility :
_bsports media and female athletes in the UFC /
_cJennifer McClearen.
246 1 _aSports media and female athletes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship
260 _aUrbana :
_bUniversity of Illinois Press,
_c2021.
300 _axii, 211 p. :
_bill. (some col.)
490 1 _aStudies in sports media
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Visibility and difference in the UFC -- Developing a millennial sports media brand -- Affect and the Rousey effect -- Gendering the American Dream -- The labor of visibility on social media -- The fight for labor equity -- Coda: On love and violence.
520 _a"Mixed martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures and investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference-whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual-to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC's half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others. Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand-and the ways women paid the price for success"--
611 2 4 _aUFC (Mixed martial arts event)
650 4 _aMass media and sports.
650 4 _aWomen in mass media.
650 4 _aMass media and women.
650 4 _aWomen martial artists.
650 4 _aMixed martial arts.
650 4 _aFeminism and sports.
650 4 _aDiscrimination in sports.
650 4 _aWomen in popular culture
_y20th century.
830 0 _aStudies in sports media.
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