Bonnie M. Hagerman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: "How It All Began" 1. "The Big F" 2. "Girls Like That" 3. "An Odd Way to Even Things Up" 4. "The Frailty Myth" 5. "The Olympic Ideal" 6. "A League of Their Own" Conclusion: "A Pretty Girl on the Cover"
"Gracefully written, brilliantly argued, thematically coherent, and a real pleasure to read." - Derek Catsam, The University of Texas, Permian Basin, author of Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement "In Skimpy Coverage, Bonnie M. Hagerman goes beyond the obvious debate--what the SI swimsuit issue means in the context of a magazine about sports--and delves into a deeper, and more interesting question, which is how SI's coverage of swimsuit supermodels relates to its coverage of female athletes. Whatever one thinks of the swimsuit issue, it's clear that it shouldn't have had any influence on how the magazine covered the steadily growing role of women in American spectator sports. And yet, maddeningly, it did. That's the compelling story being told here." - Michael MacCambridge, author of The Franchise: A History Of Sports Illustrated Magazine