Out of Play Critical Essays on Gender and Sport

Name: Out of Play Critical Essays on Gender and Sport
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ISBN: 9780791471722

ISBN-10: 0791471721

ISBN-13: 9780791471722

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael A. Messner, Raewyn Connell

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is the author of The Men and the Boys (California, 2001) among other books on gender.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Gender and Sports



Sport as a Gender Construction Site



Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender



Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain



Masculinities: Class, Race, Sexualities



Masculinities and Athletic Careers



White Men Misbehaving: Feminism, Afrocentrism, and the Promise of a Critical Standpoint



Studying Up on Sex



Bodies and Violence



When Bodies Are Weapons: Masculinity and Violence in Sport



Scoring without Consent: Confronting Male Athletes' Sexual Violence against Women




Gendered Imagery



Outside the Frame: Newspaper Coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard Wife Abuse Story




The Televised Sports Manhood Formula




This Revolution Is Not Being Televised




The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events



Bibliography


Index


List of titles in the SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations