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Taking the field [[electronic resource] ] : women, men, and sports / / Michael A. Messner



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Autore: Messner Michael A Visualizza persona
Titolo: Taking the field [[electronic resource] ] : women, men, and sports / / Michael A. Messner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina: 796/.082
Soggetto topico: Sex discrimination in sports - United States
Sports - Sex differences - United States
Feminism and sports - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Jumping Center; 1. Center Snap: Children Creating the Fiction of Gender; 2. Playing Center: The Triad of Violence in Men's Sports; 3. Center of the Diamond: The Institutional Core of Sport; 4. Center of Attention: The Gender of Sports Media; 5. Contesting the Center: Just Do What?; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Sommario/riassunto: 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 exp
Titolo autorizzato: Taking the field  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9078-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451732603321
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Serie: Sport and culture series ; ; v. 4.