21st Century Jocks is an ambitious, engaging and fundamentally successful examination of social trends relating to gay and straight adolescent men in a culture of decreased homophobia. This is a summary of an impressive amount of data collected over 14 years, and develops Anderson’s theoretical and empirical arguments presented in his previous book,
Inclusive Masculinities (Anderson
2009). It is for these reasons that
21st Century Jocks serves as a strong addition to the literature on sport, sexuality and masculinity in adolescence. …