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Taking The Field: Women, Men, and Sports
Michael A. Messner
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Description for Taking The Field: Women, Men, and Sports
Paperback. Series: Sport & culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFSJ; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
A hard-hitting look at the persistent inequities in women’s sports participation.
In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls’ and women’s dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-and yet, as Michael Messner shows us in this provocative book, no less effective. In Taking the Field, Messner argues that despite profound changes, the world of sport largely retains and continues its longtime conservative role in gender relations.
To ... Read more Taking the Field exposes the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which men and women collectively construct gender through their interactions-interactions contextualized in the institutions and symbols of sport. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Sport & culture
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816634491
SKU
V9780816634491
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About Michael A. Messner
Michael A. Messner is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California. His previous books include Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity (1995) and Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements (1997).
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