"marie-hardin" Articles & Blogs:
No Offense, It's Just Business
| Marie Hardin recently posted a WTS blog in response to Eric Deggens' column regarding a study confirming that while participation in women's sports has increased with Title IX, media coverage itself is stagnant, if not decreasing (see "Why the Apathy...[Read on] |
Addressing homophobia in women’s sports: The role of journalists
| Marie Hardin, Ph.D., is the associate director for research in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State University, and is currently collaborating on sport media research with Tucker Center affiliates.
It’s an exciting time of year fo...[Read on] |
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
A conversation: Tucker Center, Twitter and women’s sports (Part 5)
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Photo Credit: Tucker Center, Facebook, Twitter Logos
This blog post is part 5 of a series discussing my experiences with social media as they relate to advocacy issues that highly affect the women’s sport sphere. This is an assignment for a cl...[Read on] |
Be an American: Tea-bag the White House.
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Because I, like Rachel Maddow, have the sense of humor of a 12 year old.
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Or the GOP is finally coming out of the closet? I kind of love that know one that is talking about it knows what teabagging ...[Read on] |
Nora and Delia Ephron New Off-Broadway Play
| Nora and Delia Ephron. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best...[Read on] |
Selling women’s sports: Build a community, and go local
| I recently read an interesting article about women’s sports in a late October issue of SportsBusiness Journal. I felt the need to give my thoughts on the subject, especially as they relate to building and activating a community and combining that str...[Read on] |
Women Talk Sports Blogderby: Round 1
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Intro: Welcome to the very first Women Talk Sports (WTS) Blogderby, Round 1.
Every few weeks, we will “pass the torch” to a different blogger in our community who will be responsible for rounding up the best blog posts about women’s sports.
If y...[Read on] |
Best Plays of 2008-2009
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When I went to graduate school way back in the dark ages I remember that we needed to read the best plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc before we started classes. I remember distinctly that there were very few plays written by women in those books and ...[Read on] |
UK airs first-ever TV ad for abortion services
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This is a biggie. We find via Broadsheet that on Monday night, Britain ran its very first TV commercial by an abortion provider.
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The ad says:
If you're late for your period, you could be pregnan...[Read on] |
Women Boxers from Gleason’s create art for show
| I just read Meredith Deliso’s article on YourNabe.com about 15 women from Gleason’s gym in New York who worked together to create mosaics which will be sold at an art show to benefit a Brooklyn-based community group, Girls for Gender Equity.
What’s...[Read on] |
Thinking about Lombardi on Broadway
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I have had a lot of coaches in my life. I have only recently begun to understand why they matter so much.
Or, not why they matter. Everyone knows why coaches matter – they tell you what to do, they organize teams, teach plays, make judgment calls and a...[Read on] |
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
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Joan Rivers has not been at the top of many a feminist’s list because she has probably had more plastic surgery procedures than years she’s been alive — 77 as of this week. But don’t let your feelings about plastic surgery, or her obsession to...[Read on] |
Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
| Last week I talked to Mary Wineberg, lead-off leg of the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team. In 2009, she and her husband had their first child, Brooklyn Marie, who is now 9 months old. Mary is already back in shape and setting “post-...[Read on] |
WPS stays alive
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Earlier this month we learned that FC Gold Pride and the Washington Freedom had failed to make escrow payments, to secure a 2011 season. The deadline was extended to mid-November, so that hopefully new investors would step up and save the teams from foldi...[Read on] |
Interview with Jenna Milly Co-Creator of TBS’ Micro Series Gillian in Georgia
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Jill Marie Jones as Gillian
Here’s a look at an aspect of the business we have never covered before. Microseries. Writer Jenna Milly (who I had corresponded with previously when she interviewed my for an article) takes us behind the scenes about how ...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The BAFTA Long List
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Certain of the Oscar categories release long list before the final nominations but BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has produced a long list in all its categories before whittling it down to the final five in each.
An Education (a...[Read on] |
Why I’m not worried about the “Liz Lemoning” of TV
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It’s that time of the year when spring is in the air and we all shed our dreaded winter coats and look into out closets and check out the spring/summer apparel with a fit of excitement and dread. (Will that one fit after this particularly cold winter?...[Read on] |
Cultural Chick: Three Must-See Female-Inspired Museums
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As an art historian, I am passionate about the woman artist and her place in art historical discourse. So this week I present three museums in the United States that have changed the way women are included, and represented in the art world as artists, cur...[Read on] |
Top 10 Comic Book Heroines & Villains of All Time
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From six-foot tall Amazon beauties to mind-controlling mutants, the heroines and villains of history’s most enduring comic books have redefined the boundaries of female empowerment and strength. No longer are feminine roles confined to screaming on top ...[Read on] |
Volleyball star Megan Hodge and basketball standout Maya Moore both win 2010 Honda-Broderick Cup
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The Collegiate Women Sports Awards today announced that for only the second time in its 34-year history two female athletes have tied for the annual Honda-Broderick Cup, its top honor designating the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
This year’s wi...[Read on] |
Ask Patty BlogHer10 New York Mystical Magical M.O.M. Tour
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I and 2400 other women converged on New York City last weekend to celebrate BlogHer10 and our womanhood in style.This was my 5th BlogHer Conference and Capital WOW have we grown, over 1000 more BlogHer's
in attendance this year. There were a ton of majo...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Jane Wesman: Book Publicity Powerhouse
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The most influential of artists first gripped a paintbrush as a child and knew they would never live a day without creating something. A natural-born writer will scribble on anything that has a surface; regardless if it’s an empty screen with a blinking...[Read on] |
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