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Author: Jim McKay
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2000-05-26
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 076191272X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The papers in this collection consider how the study of masculinities in sport can be integrated with critical feminist studies, how to deal with the tendency to over-emphasize negative outcomes and the increasing trend to violence in sport.
Author: Jim McKay
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2000-05-26
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 145226371X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the era of sports dominance in America, athletics have become both a metaphor and reality of American masculinity. Edited by three of the leading scholars at the intersection of masculinity and sports studies, this volume offers a fascinating articulation on the state of athletics in modern society. Each part of the volume examines a significant arena and tackles some of the most deeply rooted issues within the field of sports. From the mechanisms by which masculinity is interwoven into sports to the violence encoded within the field, this book provides an insiders look at the state of gender relations.
Author: Jim McKay
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2000-05-26
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780761912729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The papers in this collection consider how the study of masculinities in sport can be integrated with critical feminist studies, how to deal with the tendency to over-emphasize negative outcomes and the increasing trend to violence in sport.
Author: Michael A. Messner
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1995-04-30
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780807041055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on interviews with a diverse group of former high school, college, and professional athletes, Power at Play examines the important role sports play in defining masculinity for American men.
Author: Cara Carmichael Aitchison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1134511817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of essays drawing together perspectives from a number of disciplines across philosophy, sociology, gender studies and more, to explore ethical questions raised by issues of gender and sexuality in sport.
Author: Sheila Scraton
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415259538
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With contributions from many of the world's leading experts on the sociology of sport, this volume brings together influential articles that confront and illuminate issues of gender and sexuality in sport.
Author: Michael A. Messner
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This reference uses a relational concept of gender that critically examines and debunks traditional assumptions about men, women, and sport.
Author: Michael A. Messner
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0791479781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 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.
Author: R. W. Connell
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0745634265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
Author: Michael A. Messner
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002-07-17
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1452904480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 explore the current paradoxes of gender in sport, Messner identifies and investigates three levels at which the "center" of sport is constructed: the day-to-day practices of sport participants, the structured rules and hierarchies of sport institutions, and the dominant symbols and belief systems transmitted by the major sports media. Using these insights, he analyzes a moment of gender construction in the lives of four- and five-year-old children at a soccer opening ceremony, the way men’s violence is expressed through sport, the interplay of financial interests and dominant men’s investment in maintaining the status quo in the face of recent challenges, and the cultural imagery at the core of sport, particularly televised sports. Through these examinations Messner lays bare the practices and ideas that buttress-as well as those that seek to disrupt-the masculine center of sport. 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.
