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Michael Kimmel

The Center for Public Integrity

Michael Kimmel is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities. He is the author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.

NCAA Basketball: Louisville Red-White Scrimmage

Women's bodies as recruiting tools: How Louisville basketball welcomed high schoolers with paid escorts

November 13, 2015
Sports

The truly scandalous aspect of the whole ordeal is that institutionalized sexism has become such a routine part of the game behind the game.

Women's bodies as recruiting tools: How Louisville basketball welcomed high schoolers with paid escorts

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