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Description of  Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)

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. Read more