- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press; illustrated edition edition (7 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0791433927
- ISBN-13: 978-0791433928
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,619,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices that create and maintain inequality. Laurel Davis illustrates how the interactions of media production, media texts, media consumption, and social context influence meaning. Individuals' interpretations of and reactions to the magazine are influenced by their views about gender and sexuality, views that have been shaped by their social experiences. Based on extensive interviews with Sports Illustrated producers and consumers, as well as analysis of every swimsuit issue from the first in 1964 to those of the 1990s, the book argues that Sports Illustrated uses the swimsuit issue to secure a large male audience by creating a climate of hegemonic masculinity. This practice produces considerable profit but on the way to the bank tramples women, gays, lesbians, people of color, and residents of the postcolonialized world.
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Laurel R. Davis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Springfield College.
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