Media Representations of Footballers' Wives

A Wag's Life

J. Bullen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

221 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-46319-0 (ISBN)

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Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and stereotypical 'Wag' has been created by newspaper and magazine coverage, auto/biographies and influential television programmes.

The late Jen Bullen was a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK, between 2006 and 2010.

1. Introduction 2. Framing the wag 3. Methodology 4. Wives in Print 5. Footballers' Wive$ - Fact or Fiction? 6. Auto/biographies – Telling Tales 7. Conclusions – What's in a Name? Data Sources Bibliography Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	XI, 221 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	British Culture • Celebrity • Class • Football • Gender • Magazines • media • Newspapers • Reality Television • Representation • wives
ISBN-10	1-349-46319-1 / 1349463191
ISBN-13	978-1-349-46319-0 / 9781349463190
Zustand	Neuware