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No Slam Dunk CRITICAL ISSUES IN SPORT AND SOCIETY Michael Messner and Douglas Hartmann, Series Editors Critical Issues in Sport and Society features scholarly books that help expand our understanding of the new and myriad ways in which sport is intertwined with social life in the contemporary world. Using the tools of various schol- arly disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, media studies, and others, books in this series investigate the growing impact of sports and sports- related activities on various aspects of social life as well as key developments and changes in the sporting world and emerging sporting practices. Series authors produce groundbreaking research that brings empirical and applied work together with cultural critique and historical perspectives written in an engag- ing, accessible format. Jules Boykoff, Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London Diana Tracy Cohen, Iron Dads: Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner, No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change Jennifer Guiliano, Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America Kathryn E. Henne, Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport Jeffrey L. Kidder, Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto, eds., Child’s Play: Sport in Kids’ Worlds Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Discipline and Indulgence: College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War Stephen C. Poulson, Why Would Anyone Do That?: Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty- First Century Nicole Willms, When Women Rule the Court: Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball No Slam Dunk Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change CHERYL COOKY AND MICHAEL A. MESSNER Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Cooky, Cheryl, author. | Messner, Michael A., author. Title: No slam dunk : gender, sport and the unevenness of social change / Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner. Description: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2018. | Series: Critical issues in sport and society | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2017033655| ISBN 9780813592053 (hardback) | ISBN 9780813592046 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Sex discrimination in sports. | Sports for women—Social aspects. | Sports—Sex differences. | Mass media and sports—Social aspects. | BISAC: SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women’s Studies. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. Classification: LCC GV706.32 .C665 2018 | DDC 306.483—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017033655 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2018 by Rutgers, The State University For copyrights to individual pieces please see first page of each essay. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permis- sion from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org Manufactured in the United States of America. No Slam Dunk is gratefully dedicated to the memory of D. Stanley Eitzen—sport sociology pioneer, prolific author, inspiring mentor, and friend. Contents 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 vii viii • Contents 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 No Slam Dunk
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