Brigidine College Library

Assignment Pathfinder

Year 10 Health and Physical Education

Women and Sport in the Media

These internet articles might be useful for answering parts (e) and (f) of your assignment question:

Women and the Media

http://www.activeaustralia.org/women/media.htm

Gender, Nationalism and the Media

http://reviews.media-culture.org.au//sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=95

Women’s Sport and the Media

http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/women_sport/09_student_papers/stu_papers_media.htm

And the Media Said…

http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/women_sport/04_media_speak/media_speak.htm

Fair Call for Olympic Sportswomen

http://www.brisinst.org.au/resources/brisinst_feedback_fair.html

Watching Those Watching Women’s Sport

http://www.brisinst.org.au/resources/brisinst_feedback_sport.html

Women Athletes Often Debased by Media Images

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=310&mode=today

Media Coverage of Women’s Sport – the Hard Sell

http://www.aushomepage.com.au/Article/465/

Women’s Sport Gets Decent Exposure

http://www.aushomepage.com.au/Article/456/

Sportswomen Struggling for Sponsor Recognition

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/s224024.htm

Sexploitation

http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2000/ascweb/sexploitation.asp

Selling Women’s Sport

http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1997/sportsf/sf970221.htm

A New Image: Female Athlete-Endorser

http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1998/cjsm/v2n4/veltrilong24.htm

Press Council News – The Back Page

http://www.presscouncil.org.au/pcsite/public/nov95/back.html