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  • Gender Play

    Girls and Boys in School

    by Barrie Thorne, C.J. Pascoe ...
    When it first appeared in 1993, Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School became an instant classic in the budding fields of feminist sociology and childhood studies. Through detailed first-hand observations of fourth and fifth graders at play, she investigated questions like: Why do girls and boys tend to self-segregate in the schoolyard? What can playful teasing and ritualized games ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • No Slam Dunk

    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    by Cheryl Cooky, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The High School

    Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024

    by Professor Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    High school yearbooks provide both a vivid snapshot of student life and a reflection of what the adults in the community valued the most. For instance, athletics are often covered more than academics, and boys’ sports routinely receive more attention than girls’ sports. But how have those values changed over time?In The High School, acclaimed sociologist Michael A. Messner reads through 120 years ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen, Cheryl Cooky ...
    Sport is a pervasive aspect of US society. Most children in the U.S. are involved in organized sport and it's the subject of much conversation, media content, leisure activity, and discretionary spending. There is a growing number of broadcast networks, online news sites, social media accounts, and streaming platforms devoted to covering sports that fans consume with keen interest. But do we truly ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Politics of Masculinities

    Men in Movements

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The profound changes wrought by the feminist movement were by no means restricted to women. In the years since feminism has taken root, the role of men and masculinity has begun to undergo its own redefinition. Michael A. Messner provides a sociological framework to understand the responses of men to the changes, challenges, and crises in the social organization of gender. By examining not only ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Taking The Field

    Women, Men, and Sports

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series
    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’ and women’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 ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Guys Like Me

    Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace have been veterans. These veterans for peace come from all different races, classes, regions, and generations. What common motivations unite them and fuel their activism?Guys Like Me introduces us to five ordinary men who have done extraordinary work as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • King of the Wild Suburb

    A memoir of fathers, sons and guns

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    Michael Messner, already known for his nuanced explorations of masculinities in sport, here humanely explores the evolving, often confusing dynamics of masculinities between three generations of boys and men. This candid memoir will make engrossing reading for both seasoned scholars and newcomers to gender studies. Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • King of the Wild Suburb

    A memoir of fathers, sons and guns

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    Michael Messner, already known for his nuanced explorations of masculinities in sport, here humanely explores the evolving, often confusing dynamics of masculinities between three generations of boys and men. This candid memoir will make engrossing reading for both seasoned scholars and newcomers to gender studies. Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Some Men

    Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women

    by Michael A. Messner, Max A. Greenberg, Tal Peretz ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    What does it mean for men to join with women as allies in preventing sexual assault and domestic violence? Based on life history interviews with men and women anti-violence activists aged 22 to 70, Some Men explores the strains and tensions of men's work as feminist allies. When feminist women began to mobilize against rape and domestic violence, setting up shelters and rape crisis centers, a few ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Gender Reckonings

    New Social Theory and Research

    Edited by James W. Messerschmidt, Michael A. Messner, Raewyn Connell, Patricia Yancey Martin ...
    Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand todaySince scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $27.99 USD

  • Child's Play

    Sport in Kids' Worlds

    by Don Sabo, Phil Veliz, Douglas Hartmann, Alex Manning, Cheryl Cooky, Lauren Rauscher, Toben F Nelson, Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, Brandon Meyer, Murray J. N. Drummond, Chelsey Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie Hazelwood, Fatimah Hussein, Ann Travers, Michael Kehler, A. James McKeever, William A. Corsaro ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its ... Read more

    $24.49 USD