Out of play
Subtitle: critical essays on gender and sport
By: Michael A. Messner ; foreword by Raewyn Connell.
Series: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780791471715; 9780791471722
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects; Sex role; Masculinity in sports; Sex discrimination in sports; Athletes in mass media; Television and sports
Description: "From beer ads in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to four-year-old boys and girls playing soccer; from male athletes' sexual violence against women to homophobia and racism in sport, Out of Play analyzes connections between gender and sport from the 1980s to the present. The book illuminates a wide range of contemporary issues in popular culture, children's sports, and women's and men's college and professional sports. Each chapter is preceded by a short introduction that lays out the context in which the piece was written. Drawing on his own memories as a former athlete, informal observations of his children's sports activities, and more formal research such as life-history interviews with athletes and content analyses of sports media, Michael A. Messner presents a multifaceted picture of gender constructed through an array of personalities, institutions, cultural symbols, and everyday interactions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Gender and sports; title: Barbie girls vs. sea monsters : children constructing gender; title: Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain; title: Masculinities and athletic careers; title: White men misbehaving : feminism, Afrocentrism, and the promise of a critical standpoint; title: Studying up on sex; title: When bodies are weapons : masculinity and violence in sport; title: Scoring without consent : confronting male athletes' sexual violence against women / with Mark Stevens; title: Outside the frame : newspaper coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard wife abuse story / with William S. Solomon; title: The televised sports manhood formula / with Michele Dunbar & Darnell Hunt; title: This revolution will not be televised / with Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Nicole Willms; title: The male consumer as loser : beer and liquor ads in mega sports media events / with Jeffrey Montez de Oca.