It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports - Couverture souple

Messner, Michael Alan

 
9780520257108: It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520257103 ISBN 13 : 9780520257108
Editeur : University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

Today, in a world quite different from the one that existed just thirty years ago, both girls and boys play soccer, baseball, softball, and other youth sports. Yet has the dramatic surge in participation by girls contributed to greater gender equality? In this engaging study, leading sociologist Michael A. Messner probes the richly complex gender dynamics of youth sports. Weaving together vivid first-person interviews with his own experiences as a volunteer for his sons' teams, Messner finds that despite the movement of girls into sports, gender boundaries and hierarchies still dominate, especially among the adults who run youth sports. His book widens into a provocative exploration of why youth sports matter--how they play a profound role in shaping gender, class, family, and community.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and the author of several books including Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520257103
ISBN 13 
9780520257108
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780520257085: It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520257081 ISBN 13 :  9780520257085
Editeur : University of California Press, 2009
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