Reviews for The swimsuit issue and sport

The average rating for The swimsuit issue and sport based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-07-10 00:00:00 Henk Bruis as i've said in earlier reviews, for me a non-fiction book can suffer from less-than-adequate writing if its scholarship is intriguing. i would definitely say that is the case for this tiny book which reads less as a full-fledged study into masculine hegemony - with the swimsuit issue as a shining example - and more as a graduate dissertation; it drops names and facts without fleshing them out, assuming that its audience is already well versed in them (i was not). too bad, considering i would have liked to know more about the studies that she cites without diving headlong into lexus nexus. furthermore, the writing in the first half, which otherwise presents a virtually inarguable case that the swimsuit issue and sports illustrated in general use both hegemonically idealized masculine and feminine bodies to gear the entire publication towards men as opposed to sports fans at large and therefore must adhere and propagate a masculine hegemony, stumbles and repeats itself in ways that it would seem any capable editor could scrub clean with relative ease. however, in its second half, where ms. davis shows the effects of the aforementioned masculine hegemony both within the contexts of the issue itself, the monthly magazine, and society as a whole, the writing becomes much more self assured, finding a solid structure within which to confidently assert opinions and observations without constantly repeating or citing previously established facts (at least, not with the frequency as the first half). overall, an interesting read for the academic minded. and made me question further my subjugating gaze in terms of a politically oppressive act.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-12 00:00:00 Daniel Thornton When I started reading this one I fairly devoured the book. However, it became clear to me early on that I shared a temperament that was not very similar to that of Tisdale's. I like sex, but I also like other things. I don't obsessively categorize my sexual fantasies, nor do I spend my time reading erotica just for the sake of reading erotica. I didn't go into this book expecting to be titillated; instead I was hoping for, as the book said, a philosophical approach to sex. However, the entire book ended up being about Tisdale's philosophical approach to sex, and while I will give her props for being open-minded and sex-positive, there were a few ideas she put forth that hit a sour note with me. The one I remember most is her idea that prostitutes and sex workers perform a service of sexual healing. Nw, I don't doubt that there are some sex workers who do approach their work in this way. (After all, if there is one thing I've learned in my three decades on this planet, it's that anytime you generalize about a group of people, you are probably going to be wrong.) But I also don't doubt that there are some sex workers who look at their work as a job that happens to pay really well, and I also don't doubt that some sex workers do their job because they have no other choice. If you are looking for an exploration of sex as it is in one woman's mind, than this is the book for you. If you are looking for something a bit more academic skip it.