Taking the Field
Taking the Field
- ISBN 13:
9780816634491
- ISBN 10:
0816634491
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 08/01/2002
- Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary
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's v