Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and is the author or editor of several books, including Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports and Paradoxes of Youth and Sport (coedited with Margaret Gatz and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach), also published by SUNY Press.

Foreword by Raewyn Connell
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gender and Sports

Part I. 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

Part II. 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

Part III. 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)

Part IV. 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)

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