Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Univ Of Minnesota Press (2002), Edition: First edition, 264 pages
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' 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 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 exp
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
264 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
0816634491 / 9780816634491