{"id":4252,"date":"2013-05-21T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:47:14","slug":"gendered-issues-of-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/05\/21\/gendered-issues-of-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Issues (of Sports Illustrated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4253\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/05\/Hope-Solo-SI-Cover.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4253\" alt=\"Soccer player Hope Solo covers Sports Illustrated in 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/05\/Hope-Solo-SI-Cover.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/05\/Hope-Solo-SI-Cover.jpg 250w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/05\/Hope-Solo-SI-Cover-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soccer player Hope Solo covers Sports Illustrated in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Title IX has had 40 years to flex its muscles in helping make sport a less gendered venue, and, indeed, more women are participating in and watching sports than ever before.\u00a0 Oddly enough, the media representation of sports has not followed suit. A new study from sociologists <a href=\"http:\/\/louisville.edu\/sociology\/faculty-staff-students\/faculty\/adjunct-faculty.html\">Jonetta Weber<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/louisville.edu\/sociology\/faculty-staff-students\/faculty\/faculty.html\">Robert Carini <\/a>of the University of Louisville reconfirms a long line of research in media representations of athletes by looking at the covers of every issue of <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> from the last decade. In an article for the website <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/sports-illustrated-loves-models-female-athletes-not-s-500138038\">Jezebel<\/a>, Madeleine Davies explains the scholars\u2019 troubling results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers found that of the 716 <em>SI <\/em>issues published between 2000 and 2011, a mere 35 of them had covers featuring female athletes. That&#8217;s only 4.9%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s extra bizarre since 12.6% of the covers from between 1954 and 1965 featured female athletes. And that\u2019s not even the worst part. Only 18 of the recent covers actually had the female athlete as the primary image on the cover&#8212;that\u2019s just 2.5%&#8212;and only 11 of the 35 issues showed non-white women on the cover. Despite a marked increase in women\u2019s sport participation, one of the best-known sporting news outlets has been gradually phasing out female athletes and their accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>For more on\u00a0<em>SI&#8217;s<\/em> troubled history of representing female athletes, check out\u00a0<em>The Atlantic&#8217;s<\/em> 2011 piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/07\/9-ways-women-get-on-the-cover-of-sports-illustrated\/242251\/\">9 Ways Women Get on the Cover of &#8216;Sports Illustrated&#8217;<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title IX has had 40 years to flex its muscles in helping make sport a less gendered venue, and, indeed, more women are participating in and watching sports than ever before.\u00a0 Oddly enough, the media representation of sports has not followed suit. A new study from sociologists Jonetta Weber and Robert Carini of the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":4253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55],"tags":[39114,129,50],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","tag-gender","tag-media","tag-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/05\/Hope-Solo-SI-Cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}