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    Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC

    Fighting Visibility by McClearen, Jennifer;

    Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC

    Series: Studies in Sports Media; 6;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number First Edition
    • Publisher University of Illinois Press
    • Date of Publication 30 March 2021
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780252085727
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 229x152x15 mm
    • Weight 313 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 color photographs, 22 black & white photographs, 2 tables
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    Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women's sports 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.

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    Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women's sports



    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.



    "Fighting Visibility demonstrates that female fighters are encouraged to imagine opportunities for professional success through UFC despite several significant ways in which these athletes are exploited. UFC positions the success of Ronda Rousey as something for both athletes and fans to emulate, following the notion that 'if you can see her, you can be her.' Yet McClearen's research shows that Rousey's success is exceptional and only portrayed as typical, rendering opportunity a likely facade." --Journal of Sport History


    "McClearen urges scholars to move beyond dichotomous notions of visibility and to consider the cultural and material consequences of being seen. . . . Centering the well-being and lived experienced of female athletes, McClearen's Fighting Visibility provides a strong foundation on which to build a sustained critique of the relationship between media visibility and exploitation." --Media Industries


    "The book is a fascinating read. . . . McClearen has written a compelling history of women in the UFC, along with the trials they have faced." --Sport in American History

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    Table of Contents:

    Cover
    TItle
    Copyright
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction: Visibility and Differences in the UFO
    1. Developing a Millennial Sports Media Brand
    2. Affect and the Rousey Effect
    3. Gendering the American Dream
    4. The Labor of Visibility on Social Media
    5. The Fight for Labor Equity
    Coda: On Love and Violence
    Appendix A. Publicly Available UFC Payouts, 2015?2018
    Appendix B. Publicly Available UFC Payouts by Gender and Race, 2015?2018
    Notes
    References
    Index
    Back cover

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