"Lempeä Lydia" - "voimakas Björgen" : naishiihtäjien representoinnin muutokset Urheilulehden teksteissä vuosina 1905-2010
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Studies in sport, physical education and healthDate
2017Discipline
Liikunnan yhteiskuntatieteetThe purpose of my study is to examine how female skiers are represented in the
texts of a Finnish sports magazine, Urheilulehti, and how these representations have
changed during the examination period from 1905 to 2010. Relying on Judith Butler’s ideology of gender performativity, I analyse the representations of female skiers from the perspective of promoting the traditional female norm and simultaneously from the perspective of breaking and reforming it.
The methodological framework of my study consists of Fairclough’s three-
dimensional framework, which is based on the tradition of critical discourse analysis (CDA). In compliance with this framework, I began the analysis from the textual
level and proceeded through the discursive practice level to explaining different
interpretations at the social practice level.
The analysis produced a classification of four ‘upper-level discourses’ and
eight ‘main discourses’ for structuring female skiers’ representations. The u
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Naishiihtäjien representoinnin muutokset Urheilulehden teksteissä vuosina 1905-2010Publisher
University of JyväskyläISBN
978-951-39-6984-4ISSN Search the Publication Forum
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