Representation of female tennis players

Stumbled across this excellent feminist take on how female tennis players are represented through language while looking for something else. There's also some very good stuff in Lia Litosseliti's Gender and Language: Theory and Practice, a text that I came across last year and used successfully with AS ENGA2 students.

Women beware women

Joanna Bourke takes a look at coverage of women's violence and asks why it's not reported in the same ways as men's violence.

Women Beware Women

Representation of soldiers' wives and partners

From today's Sun. Might be good for its obviously gendered construction of Daniel Gamble's girlfriend's  identity ("Heartbroken Tammy", "Inconsolable Tammy" , "pretty shop assistant Tammy").