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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relationsPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xiv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0791471713
  • 9780791471715
  • 0791471721
  • 9780791471722
Other title:
  • Critical essays on gender and sport
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5 .M46 2007
Contents:
Foreword / Raewyn Connell -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Gender and sports -- pt. 1. Sport as a gender construction site -- 1. Barbie girls versus sea monsters : children constructing gender -- 2. Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain -- pt. 2. Masculinities : class, race, sexualities -- 3. Masculinities and athletic careers -- 4. White men misbehaving : feminism, Afrocentrism, and the promise of a critical standpoint -- 5. Studying up on sex -- pt. 3. Bodies and violence -- 6. When bodies are weapons : masculinity and violence in sport -- 7. Scoring without consent : confronting male athletes' sexual violence against women / with Mark Stevens -- pt. 4. Gendered imagery -- 8. Outside the frame : newspaper coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard wife abuse story / with William S. Solomon -- 9. The televised sports manhood formula / with Michele Dunbar and Darnell Hunt -- 10. This revolution is not being televised / with Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Nicole Willms -- 11. The male consumer as loser : beer and liquor ads in mega sports media events / with Jeffrey Montez de Oca -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of titles in the SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index.

Foreword / Raewyn Connell -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Gender and sports -- pt. 1. Sport as a gender construction site -- 1. Barbie girls versus sea monsters : children constructing gender -- 2. Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain -- pt. 2. Masculinities : class, race, sexualities -- 3. Masculinities and athletic careers -- 4. White men misbehaving : feminism, Afrocentrism, and the promise of a critical standpoint -- 5. Studying up on sex -- pt. 3. Bodies and violence -- 6. When bodies are weapons : masculinity and violence in sport -- 7. Scoring without consent : confronting male athletes' sexual violence against women / with Mark Stevens -- pt. 4. Gendered imagery -- 8. Outside the frame : newspaper coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard wife abuse story / with William S. Solomon -- 9. The televised sports manhood formula / with Michele Dunbar and Darnell Hunt -- 10. This revolution is not being televised / with Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Nicole Willms -- 11. The male consumer as loser : beer and liquor ads in mega sports media events / with Jeffrey Montez de Oca -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of titles in the SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.

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