Diverging discourses: Gender differences in televised golf announcing

Authors :: Billings, Andrew C.
Angelini, James R.
Eastman, Susan Tyler
Source :: Mass Communication and Society. Spring, 2005, Vol. 8 Issue 2, 155-171
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: Comparison with the findings in 9 seminal studies of sports announcing showed that golf commentary is distinctively different from other types of sports commentary. The results counter the previously identified female stereotype of implied physical weakness, while potentially exemplifying a newer stereotype of female golfers achieving.