No Slam Dunk

Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

314 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9204-6 (ISBN)

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In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all underline how much still has yet to change before we see gender equality in sports.

The chapters in No Slam Dunk show that is this not simply a story of an “unfinished revolution.” Rather, they contend, it is simplistic optimism to assume that we are currently nearing the conclusion of a story of linear progress that ends with a certain future of equality and justice. This book provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been “No Slam Dunk.”

CHERYL COOKY is an associate professor of American Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. MICHAEL A. MESSNER is a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of many books including Child’s Play: Sport in Kids’ Worlds (Rutgers University Press).

Introduction 1

CHERYL COOKY AND MICHAEL A. MESSNER

Part I Sport, Gender, and Sexuality

1 Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the

Production of Soft Essentialism 15

MICHAEL A. MESSNER

2 Policing the Boundaries of Sex: A Critical

Examination of Gender Verification and the Caster

Semenya Controversy 37

CHERYL COOKY AND SHARI L. DWORKIN

3 Gender Relations and Sport:

Local, National, Transnational 54

MICHAEL A. MESSNER

4 Women, Sports, and Activism 70

CHERYL COOKY

Part II Sport as Gendered Practice

5 Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children

Constructing Gender 93

MICHAEL A. MESSNER

6 “Girls Just Aren’t Interested”: The Social Construction

of Interest in Girls’ Sport 113

CHERYL COOKY

7 Ready for Anything the World Gives Her?:

A Critical Look at Sports-Based

Positive Youth

Development for Girls 139

LAUREN RAUSCHER AND CHERYL COOKY

8 Separating the Men from the Moms: The Making of

Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports 160

MICHAEL A. MESSNER AND SUZEL BOZADA-DEAS

9 Gender and Sport Participation in Montenegro 180

CHERYL COOKY, MARKO BEGOVIC, DON SABO, CAROLE A. OGLESBY,

AND MARJ SNYDER

Part III The Gender of Sports Media

10 “It’s Dude Time!”: A Quarter Century of Excluding

Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows 209

CHERYL COOKY, MICHAEL A. MESSNER, AND MICHELA MUSTO

11 Reflections on Communication and Sport: On Men

and Masculinities 235

MICHAEL A. MESSNER

12 It’s Not about the Game: Don Imus, Race, Class,

Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Media 247

CHERYL COOKY, FAYE L. WACHS, MICHAEL A. MESSNER, AND SHARI L. DWORKIN

13 “What Makes a Woman a Woman?” versus “Our First

Lady of Sport”: A Comparative Analysis of the

United States and the South African Media Coverage

of Caster Semenya 269

CHERYL COOKY, RANISSA DYCUS, AND SHARI L. DWORKIN

About the Authors 295

About the Contributors 297

Index 299

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Co-Autor	Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic
Zusatzinfo	4 black and white photos, 19 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	68 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-9204-6 / 0813592046
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9204-6 / 9780813592046
Zustand	Neuware