GUY HARRISON, Author of "On the Sidelines" Professor at Tennessee Knoxville

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Guy Harrison is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. His book On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster was published in 2021 by the University of Nebraska Press.

Harrison writes about the current state of women in sports broadcasting, the challenges and the double-standards, and provides some suggestions about how the conditions might improve. A conversation about inclusiveness in the sports business.

Show Notes:

1:30 why did you write this book?

7:30 are we making progress?

10:00 the stereotype of the woman sportscaster

11:50 credibility and appearance

19:00 defining gendered neoliberalism

22:30 Title IX and neoliberalism

25:20 how are women improving their lot?

30:00 investing in women’s sports

32:10 you refer to broadcasting as a capitalistic enterprise

37:00 the audience is still male and heterosexual

41:00 training the audience to hear women’s voices

44:00 some history of women in sports broadcasting

46:30 the emotional labor expended