TC Talks podcast: Affiliated Scholar Cheryl Cooky on Women’s Sports Coverage

Dr. Cheryl Cooky
Cheryl Cooky

In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” (S3E7) of “Tucker Center Talks,” Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., senior lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, talks with her colleague Dr. Cheryl Cooky who is professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She is the co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change, is Past-President of NASSS, current editor of Sociology of Sport Journal, Tucker Center affiliated scholar and one of the most respected critical feminist, gender and sport scholars around the globe.

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