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OverviewSkimpy 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bonnie M. HagermanPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Weight: 0.303kg ISBN: 9780813949222ISBN 10: 081394922 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 15 May 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: ""How It All Began"" 1. ""The Big F"" 2. ""Girls Like That"" 3. ""An Odd Way to Even Things Up"" 4. ""The Frailty Myth"" 5. ""The Olympic Ideal"" 6. ""A League of Their Own"" Conclusion: ""A Pretty Girl on the Cover"""Reviews“Gracefully written, brilliantly argued, thematically coherent, and a real pleasure to read.” - Derek Catsam, The University of Texas, Permian Basin, author of Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement “In Skimpy Coverage, Bonnie M. Hagerman goes beyond the obvious debate--what the SI swimsuit issue means in the context of a magazine about sports--and delves into a deeper, and more interesting question, which is how SI’s coverage of swimsuit supermodels relates to its coverage of female athletes. Whatever one thinks of the swimsuit issue, it’s clear that it shouldn’t have had any influence on how the magazine covered the steadily growing role of women in American spectator sports. And yet, maddeningly, it did. That’s the compelling story being told here.” - Michael MacCambridge, author of The Franchise: A History Of Sports Illustrated Magazine Author InformationBonnie M. Hagerman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |