No Slam Dunk

"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub

— Chronicle of Higher Education

"Recommended." 

— Choice

"No Slam Dunk is an invaluable, highly accessible resource and a fantastic addition to the sport and gender literature. Cooky and Messner provide a volume that is both entertaining and engaging."

— Jeffrey Montez de Oca, author of Discipline and Indulgence: College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life

"No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change by Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner (Rutgers University Press; 314 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Combines empirical and theoretical perspectives in a study of challenges that remain for gender equity in sports."

— Chronicle of Higher Education

"A highly readable, engaging, and useful collection of crisply written chapters. Each chapter concludes with a series of thoughtful questions that could be used to stimulate reflection and debate within the classroom or lecture theater. As such, given the accessible writing and insightful commentaries, this text could be usefully employed as a course reader on sport and gender."

— Sociology of Sport Journal

"This is a must-read book for anyone interested in understanding gender and sport today....No Slam Dunk synthesizes a robust literature and brings multiple qualitative methods, from content analysis to ethnography, interviews, and subjects’ accounts, to bear on timely topics."

— Gender & Society

"Sport is an essential window for understanding what unites and divides us. It shapes our world. No Slam Dunk is essential: a decoder ring for understanding issues of gender and sexuality with the Rosetta Stone that is the games we play."

— Dave Zirin, sports editor, The Nation

"'I don't think it's coincidental that the dunk becomes emblematic of men's basketball—and supposedly what makes men's basketball exciting—right at the moment the women's game is ascendent,' says Michael Messner, a professor of sociology and gender studies at USC and co-author of the upcoming book No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change"

— Natalie Weiner, Bleacher Report