Media representations of footballers' wives
Subtitle: a wag's life
By: Jennifer Bullen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781137335685
Subjects: Soccer; Mass media; Mass media and sports; Soccer players' spouses; Public opinion; Wives; Effect of husband's employment on; Fame; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer
Description: "Since the FIFA World Cup of 2006, footballers' wives have become a staple part of popular British culture, regularly appearing in glossy magazines, the tabloid press, reality shows and documentaries. Jen Bullen provides an analysis of how the media has created an exaggerated and stereotypical 'wag' (wife and girlfriend) figure. Wags are treated like royalty, living in a glamorous and fairy tale world and offering the aspiration of transformation to young women, while elsewhere they are denigrated as pathological and representative of a short-cut culture - gold-digging bimbos undeserving of their fame and fortune and, as such, subjected to symbolic violence based on their class and taste. Bullen examines such representations in relation to class, gender, celebrity and football"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction2. Framing the wag3. Methodology4. Wives in Print5. Footballers' Wive$ - Fact or Fiction?6. Auto/biographies - Telling Tales7. Conclusions - What's in a Name?Data SourcesBibliographyAppendix AAppendix BAppendix C.