Tough Girls in a rough game: Televising the unruly female athletes of contemporary roller derby

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 283-301

  Kearney, Mary Celeste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

female athletes; gender; reality TV; roller derby; Rollergirls; sports media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960818484     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2010.535309     Document Type: Article

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