http://hdl.handle.net/2282/236 Search the Channel search http://teora.hit.no:8443/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2282/409 Title: Hans B. Skaset : mannen i media <br/> <br/>Authors: Lippe, Gerd von der Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2282/378 Title: Konstruksjon av kjønn og seksualitet i en dramaturgisk idrettskontekst <br/> <br/>Authors: Lippe, Gerd von der <br/> <br/>Abstract: This article focuses on how the dominating gender and sexualized order is reproduced, and on how new constellations between femininities and masculinities are constructed in the elite sports media. The point of departure is a drama in the Norwegian national papers, VG and Dagbladet, in April 1997, about whether Anja Andersen, a Dane, should play for the Norwegian handballclub, Bækkelagets Sportsklubb, or the Spanish club, Valencia Urbana. Other central agents were the captain of the team, Susann Goksør, and the coach, Frode Kyvåg. The article relates the idea of the dominating gender and sexualized order and the notion of ambivalence to Pierre Bourdieu, Jorunn Solheim, Jennifer Hargreaves and perspectives from Judith Butler. The dominating gender and sexualized order may be interpreted as an enormous symbolic machine of masculine dominance, an order taken for granted as the «natural world» and not reflected upon - and therefore not questioned. According to Wencke Mühleisen, the signs of gender and sexuality of today are much more fluid, unstable and ambivalent than earlier, with the barriers between femininities and masculinities woven in new constellations. The article also deals with the non-conventional and what may be understood as queer in relation to the gendered stereotypes and the «heterosexual matrix». Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2282/374 Title: Media image : sport, gender and national identities in five European countries <br/> <br/>Authors: Lippe, Gerd von der <br/> <br/>Abstract: This article investigates the media construction of female bodies in relation to the symbolic processes of national-making through the European Championship in handball in 1998. The focus is on mediated texts from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Romania, in which cultural differences and similarities through cultural metaphors in a feminist perspective are the main issues. Contradictions and ambivalences are also included in the analysis. If sport contributes to the construction and reconstruction of national identities in a global world the following four criteria must be included: First, the sport must be mediated as having a glorious history (Denmark, Hungary, Norway and Romania). Second, if this is applied to women`s sport, the sport must be represented as “sex-appropriate” in a historical context and/or today (Denmark, Hungary, Norway and Romania). To do so, female athletes cannot be understood as "the Other" in the overall context which is analysed (Denmark, Hungary, Norway and Romania). Third, the athletes` bodies must be mediated as aggressive, tough, strong, and non-fragile with power to play in competitions in a historical context and/or today (Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Romania). Fourth, European Championships in the sport must be presented as media events in the country (Denmark and Norway). For countries in the former eastern bloc, both state politics and politics in the field of handball may have a decisive say as to whether the sport is mediated to contribute to the (re)construction of national identities (Hungary and Romania). Claims that national myth making is supposed to deny issues of gender is problematized through the concept of doxa (what is taken for granted and not reflected upon). Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2282/373 Title: Heresy as a victorious political practice : grass-roots politics in Norwegian sports 1972-1975 <br/> <br/>Authors: Lippe, Gerd von der <br/> <br/>Abstract: This article deals with a question of sport politics: the fight for female participation in the most popular running competition in Norway between 1972- 75. The focus is on the process from doxa (what we take for granted), through heterodoxa (the effort to challenge the doxa) and at the end ‘winning the game’. Most research in sport politics has focused on formal politics in sports organizations and official political aims of the state, but not, as in this paper, on informal counter-cultural movements and ‘ad-hoc-groups’. This is also an example of how private experiences become official stories. The approach used is that of the life story (my own, personal account of a particular experience), with some elements of life history (in the sense that I am placing my story into a particular cultural, social and political context). In addition to the use of Bourdieu’s concepts of doxa, heterodoxa and symbolic power, Mary Douglas’s symbolic systems of purity and dirt are also used in the analysis. The article demonstrates, through the life history method, how sport interlinked with gender politics and wider political alliances is challenging the sports establishment. Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:58:59 GMT