Natalie G. Adams is a professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama. She is the coauthor of Cheerleader! An American Icon and Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi, and a coeditor of Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between.
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List of Illustrations Introduction. Cheer Obsession (Natalie G. Adams) Cheer Note #1. The Big Cheer Umbrella Part I. Made in the USA: The Gendered and Raced Politics of Cheer Chapter 1. From Campus Leaders to Rowdy Boys: Masculinity in College Cheerleading (Dwaine Plaza, Kathleen Stanley, and Michelle Inderbitzin) Chapter 2. Sidelined No More: Cheerleading, Embodied Activism, and the Politics of Racial Belonging (Amira Rose Davis and Paulina A. Serrano) Cheer Note #2. The College Mascot Chapter 3. Pump It Up: Cheerleading Fights for Sports Legitimacy (Amy Moritz and Natalie G. Adams) Cheer Note #3. Cheer Lingo Chapter 4. Between Legitimacy and Femininity: Cheerleading and the Politics of Gender in Sport (Emily West and Laura Grindstaff) Part II. The Other Cheerleaders: Sex, Work, and Protest Chapter 5. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making America's Sweethearts (Lauren R. Nowosatka) Cheer Note #4. Cheer Stunts: Speaking the Language Chapter 6. "Look Like a Supermodel but Perform Like an Athlete": Professional Cheerleading in a Post-#MeToo World (Lauren C. Hindman) Chapter 7. We're Here, We're Queer, Get Used to It: LGBTQ Adult Performance Teams in the United States (Laura Grindstaff) Cheer Note #5. Cheerleaders as Social Activists Chapter 8. Engendering the Body Politic: The Case of Radical Cheerleaders (Laura Grindstaff) Part III. Not Just Any Girl: Mediated Representations of Cheerleaders Chapter 9. Queering the All-American Girl: Cheerleading, Same-Sex Desire, and the (Not So) Good Girl (Barbara J. Brickman) Cheer Note #6. Cheerleaders in Popular Culture Chapter 10. Cheerleading and the Body: Disordered Eating, Public Surveillance, and Self-Regulation (Caitlyn M. Jarvis and Ashleigh N. Shields) Cheer Note #7. The Booty Bill Chapter 11. For the Love of Cheer: An Insider's View (Isabelle Bennington) Part IV. Cheer Trouble Chapter 12. Gimme an F: Cheerleading Goes to the Supreme Court (Zoie Comer and Stanley J. Murphy) Cheer Note #8. Famous Cheerleaders Chapter 13. Monopolizing Spirit: Varsity and the Building of a Cheerocracy (Natalie G. Adams) Conclusion. Cheer Matters: Now and in the Future(Natalie G. Adams) Cheer Notes Answer Key Contributors Index