Messner, Michael A.

Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport / Michael A. Messner ; foreword by Raewyn Connell. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2007. - 227 p. : ill.

Introduction: Gender and sports -- Barbie girls versus sea monsters : children constructing gender -- Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain -- Masculinities and athletic careers -- White men misbehaving : feminism, Afrocentrism, and the promise of a critical standpoint -- Studying up on sex -- When bodies are weapons : masculinity and violence in sport -- Scoring without consent : confronting male athletes' sexual violence against women / with Mark Stevens -- Outside the frame : newspaper coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard wife abuse story / with William S. Solomon -- The televised sports manhood formula / with Michele Dunbar and Darnell Hunt -- This revolution is not being televised / with Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Nicole Willms -- The male consumer as loser : beer and liquor ads in mega sports media events / with Jeffrey Montez de Oca. HKBU library

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Sports--Social aspects.
Sex role.
Masculinity in sports.
Sex discrimination in sports.
Athletes in mass media.
Television and sports.

GV706 / M583 O 2007