It's all for the kids
Subtitle: gender, families, and youth sports
By: Michael A. Messner.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520257085; 9780520257108
Subjects: Sports for children; Sports for children -- Coaching; Sports for children -- Psychological aspects; Sports -- Sex differences; Parent and child
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "It's all for the kids": gender, families, and youth sports; title: "Looking for a team mom": separating the men from the moms; title: "We don't like chick coaches": women at the helm; title: "You don't have to be a drill sergeant": men at the helm; title: "They're different; and they're born different": Engendering the kids; title: "It's a safe and fun place for kids": sports, families and the good community; title: Appendix 1. Demographic description of interview subjects; title: Appendix 2. Racial/ethnic composition of South Pasadena LLB/S and AYSO coaches, and of the city of South Pasadena; title: Appendix 3. Proportion of AYSO and LLB/S women head coaches in communities surrounding South Pasadena; title: Appendix 4. In the field; title: References; title: Index.