Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport / Michael A. Messner ; foreword by Raewyn Connell.

By: Material type: TextSeries: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relationsPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 227 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780791471715 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0791471713 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780791471722 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0791471721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 706.5 .M46 2007
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Contents:
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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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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