No slam dunk : gender, sport and the unevenness of social change /
Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner.
- viii, 303 pages ; 24 cm.
- Critical issues in sport and society .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gender ideologies, youth sports, and the production of soft essentialism / Michael A. Messner -- Policing the boundaries of sex : a critical examination of gender verification and the Caster Semenya controversy / Cheryl Cooky & Shari L. Dworkin -- Gender relations and sport : local, national, transnational / Michael A. Messner -- Women, sports, and activism / Cheryl Cooky -- Barbie girls vs. sea monsters : children constructing gender / Michael A. Messner -- "Girls just aren't interested" : the social construction of interest in girls' sport / Cheryl Cooky -- Ready for anything the world gives her? : a critical look at sports-based positive youth development for girls / Lauren Rauscher & Cheryl Cooky -- Separating the men from the moms : the making of adult sex segregation in youth sports / Michael A. Messner & Suzel Bozada-Deas -- Gender and sport participation in Montenegro / Cheryl Cooky, Marco Begovic, Don Sabo, Carole Oglesby & Marj Synder -- "It's dude time!" : a quarter century of excluding women's sports in televised news and highlights shows / Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner & Michela Musto --Reflections on communication and sport : on men and masculinities / Michael A. Messner -- "It's not about the game" : Don Imus, racism and sexism in contemporary media / Cheryl Cooky, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner and Shari Lee Dworkin.
"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." --