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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0816634491
ISBN-13: 9780816634491
Aug 2002
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
239 pages
Sport and Culture Series, 4
Language: English |
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Condition: Acceptable
Seller's Comments: used college text: one crease in binding. still good for college course.
Full Description:
[Back Cover]
In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with athletic power and of females with weakness and assisivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls' and womens' dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, 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 sprot institutions, and the dominant symbols and belief systems transmitted by the major sport media. 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. |
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