Featured Publication: Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport
Publication Title
Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport
Co-Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date
April 2025
About the Book
Sport is a pervasive aspect of US society. Most children in the U.S. are involved in organized sport and it's the subject of much conversation, media content, leisure activity, and discretionary spending. There is a growing number of broadcast networks, online news sites, social media accounts, and streaming platforms devoted to covering sports that fans consume with keen interest. But do we truly understand sport? Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport's darker side-the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, media grandstanding, and more.
About the Author
Cheryl Cooky is a professor of Interdisciplinary studies at Purdue University. Her research focuses on three areas: gendered media representations of sport; gender politics of sport and public policies; and how gender shapes sports experiences, cultural meanings, and organizational structures in sports. She is the co-author of Serving Equality: Feminism, Media and Women’s Sports (2022, Peter Lang Publishers) and No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (2018, Rutgers University Press). Her research is published in a diverse array of journals including Journal of Sex Research, Sex Roles, Gender and Society, American Journal of Bioethics, Sociology of Sport Journal, among others. Committed to making research accessible to general audiences, Dr. Cooky has authored opinion-editorial articles, appeared as an expert in several documentary films, television and radio programs, and has been quoted in over 100 national and international news media outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Forbes, Globe & Mail, The Guardian, National Public Radio, ESPN, among others. She is the Editor of Sociology of Sport Journal, the flagship journal of the field and a past-president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.