Table of 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 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
