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Myrtle Cook, une femme à part
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Myrtle Cook, une femme à part
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| Abstract |
An account of Montreal Star sports reporter Myrtle Cook's coverage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Cook was the only woman assigned to follow the Games. The author points out that Cook (1902-1985) wrote a daily column throughout the two weeks of the competition in which she reported in detail on the exploits of female athletes, thereby setting herself apart from the rest of the male journalists, where the presence of sportswomen was generally marginalized. Cook, a former Olympic champion herself and a proud advocate of women's sports, did not stop at merely summarizing the competitions. According to the author, Cook challenged the dominant assumption, daring to question the biological discourse about the presumptive weak "nature" of women and the stereotypes of female athletes.
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Belphégor : Littérature populaire et culture médiatique
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Vol. 15
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no. 1
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1-5
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2017
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fr
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St-Pierre, Marilou. “Myrtle Cook, une femme à part.” Belphégor : Littérature populaire et culture médiatique Vol. 15, no. 1 (2017): 1–5. https://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/842#:~:text=De%20son%20c%C3%B4t%C3%A9%2C%20Cook%20invite,les%20hommes%20et%20les%20femmes.
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