Bonnie M Hagerman
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Skimpy Coverage

Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete

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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 magaz...