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• catalog abstract "A hard-hitting look at the persistent inequities in women{u2019}s sports participation. Michael Messner argues that despite profound changes, the world of sport largely retains and continues its longtime conservative role in gender relations. In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls{u2019} and women{u2019}s dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-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 sport institutions, and the dominant symbols and belief systems transmitted by the major sports media. Using these insights, he analyzes a moment of gender construction in the lives of four- and five-year-old children at a soccer opening ceremony, the way men{u2019}s violence is expressed through sport, the interplay of financial interests and dominant men{u2019}s investment in maintaining the status quo in the face of recent challenges, and the cultural imagery at the core of sport, particularly televised sports. 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. Taking the Field exposes the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which men and women collectively construct gender through their interactions-interactions contextualized in the institutions and symbols of sport.".
• catalog contributor b12619499.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description "A hard-hitting look at the persistent inequities in women{u2019}s sports participation. Michael Messner argues that despite profound changes, the world of sport largely retains and continues its longtime conservative role in gender relations.".
• catalog description "Center snap: children creating the fiction of gender -- Playing center: the triad of violence in men's sports -- Center of the diamond: the institutional core of sport -- Center of attention: the gender of sports media -- Contesting the center: just do what?".
• catalog description "In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls{u2019} and women{u2019}s dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.".
• catalog description "Taking the Field exposes the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which men and women collectively construct gender through their interactions-interactions contextualized in the institutions and symbols of sport.".
• catalog description "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 sport institutions, and the dominant symbols and belief systems transmitted by the major sports media. Using these insights, he analyzes a moment of gender construction in the lives of four- and five-year-old children at a soccer opening ceremony, the way men{u2019}s violence is expressed through sport, the interplay of financial interests and dominant men{u2019}s investment in maintaining the status quo in the face of recent challenges, and the cultural imagery at the core of sport, particularly televised sports. 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.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 239 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0816634483 (HC : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0816634491 (PB : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Sport and culture series ; v. 4".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "796/.082 21".
• catalog subject "Feminism and sports United States.".
• catalog subject "GV706.32 .M47 2002".
• catalog subject "Sex discrimination in sports United States.".
• catalog subject "Sports Sex differences United States.".
• catalog subject "Sports United States Sex differences.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Center snap: children creating the fiction of gender -- Playing center: the triad of violence in men's sports -- Center of the diamond: the institutional core of sport -- Center of attention: the gender of sports media -- Contesting the center: just do what?".
• catalog title "Taking the field : women, men, and sports / Michael A. Messner.".
• catalog type "text".