Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Sport, Gender, and Sexuality
5. 1. Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism 15
6. 2. Policing the Boundaries of Sex A Critical Examination of Gender Verification and the Caster Semenya Controversy 37
7. 3. Gender Relations and Sport Local, National, Transnational 54
8. 4. Women, Sports, and Activism 70
9. Part II. Sport as Gendered Practice
10. 5. Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters. Children Constructing Gender 93
11. 6. “Girls Just Aren’t Interested” The Social Construction of Interest in Girls’ Sport 113
12. 7. Ready for Anything the World Gives Her? A Critical Look at Sports- Based Positive Youth Development for Girls 139
13. 8. Separating the Men from the Moms. The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports 160
14. 9. Gender and Sport Participation in Montenegro 180
15. Part III. The Gender of Sports Media
16. 10. “It’s Dude Time!” A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows 209
17. 11 Reflections on Communication and Sport. On Men and Masculinities 235
18. 12. It’s Not about the Game Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Media 247
19. 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
20. About the Authors 295
21. About the Contributors 297
22. Index 299