Open AccessAthlete as Agitator, Assaulter, and Armor
Author(s) -
Shelby Boehm,
Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko,
Kathleen Olmstead,
Henry “Cody” Miller
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
study and scrutiny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2376-5275
DOI - 10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2020.4.2.31-56
Subject(s) - athletes , rage (emotion) , sexual assault , basketball , psychology , gender studies , criminology , social psychology , history , sociology , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , environmental health , archaeology , physical therapy
An increasing number of young adult literature features male athletes sexually assaulting female classmates. These books can be generative spaces for examining relationships between athletic identities and sexual violence. This manuscript provides an analysis of six YAL novels addressing sexual assault: Moxie (Mathieu, 2017), The Nowhere Girls (Reed, 2017), The Way I Used to Be (Smith, 2017), Some Boys (Blount, 2014), Asking For It (O’Neill, 2016), All the Rage (Summers, 2015). The authors examine athlete identities and figured worlds in the six titles and then present teaching suggestions to investigate in English classrooms athlete identities and sexual assault.