Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Language: English
Published by University of Virginia Press, 2023
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- Title
- Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
- Author
- Hagerman, Bonnie M.
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0813949238
- ISBN 13
- 9780813949239
- Item weight
- 346 grams
- Series
- Book 17 of 19: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Skimpy Coverage explores Sports Illustrated’s treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine’s founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which Sports Illustrated―arguably the leading sports publication in postwar America―engaged with the social and cultural changes affecting women’s athletics and the conversations about gender and identity they spawned.
Bonnie Hagerman examines the emergence of the magazine’s archetypal female athlete―good-looking, straight, and white―and argues that such qualities were the same ones the magazine prized in the women who appeared in its wildly successful Swimsuit Issue. As Hagerman shows, the female athlete and the swimsuit model, at least for the magazine, were essentially one and the same. Despite this conflation, and the challenges it poses, Hagerman also tracks the distance that sportswomen―including Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and Megan Rapinoe―have traveled both within Sports Illustrated’s pages and without. Blending sports with gender history, Skimpy Coverage profiles numerous sportswomen who have used athletics and the platform sport offers to push for empowerment, freedom, equality, and acceptance in ways that have complemented and inspired broader feminist agendas.
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Bonnie M. Hagerman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia.
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