Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport /

Messner, Michael A.

Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport / Michael A. Messner ; foreword by Raewyn Connell. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007. - xiv, 227 p. : ill. - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations .

Bibliogr. 197-220.

Introduction: Gender and sports -- Barbie girls vs. sea monsters : children constructing gender -- Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain -- Masculinities and athletic careers -- White men misbehaving : feminism, Afrocentrism, and the promise of a critical standpoint -- Studying up on sex -- When bodies are weapons : masculinity and violence in sport -- Scoring without consent : confronting male athletes' sexual violence against women / with Mark Stevens -- Outside the frame : newspaper coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard wife abuse story / with William S. Solomon -- The televised sports manhood formula / with Michele Dunbar & Darnell Hunt -- This revolution will not be televised / with Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Nicole Willms -- The male consumer as loser : beer and liquor ads in mega sports media events / with Jeffrey Montez de Oca.

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Sports--Aspect social.
R�ole selon le sexe.
Masculinit�e dans les sports.
Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports.
Sportifs dans les m�edias.
T�el�evision et sports.
Sports--Aspect social.
Discrimination dans les sports.
Athl�etes--Dans les m�edias.
T�el�evision et sports.

GV 706.5 / .M46 2007