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This chapter explores and compares mainstream news and sport media constructions of the men’s and women’s US–Mexico soccer rivalry. Sport is a powerful site for the construction of nation and gender. But as a prominently masculine site there are substantive differences in the ways men’s and women’s sport gets taken up “as nation”, (re)produced as rivals, and framed within the mediated narratives of sport as they intersect with the wider and longstanding geopolitical history of US–Mexico relations.
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Meân, L.J., Herrera, R. (2017). Gendered Nations: Media Representations of the Men’s and Women’s US–Mexico Soccer Rivalry. In: Kassing, J., Meân, L. (eds) Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Soccer Rivalry. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55831-8_5
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