by Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner
contributions by Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder and Suzel Bozada-Deas
Rutgers University Press, 2018
Paper: 978-0-8135-9205-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-9208-4
Library of Congress Classification GV706.32.C665 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.483

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.”  
 

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