Kicking Center - Gender and the Selling of Women''s Professional Soccer

Investigates a women's soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated centre of US professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, Rachel Allison demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations 
Introduction: Kicking Center                         
1    Women’s Soccer in the United States                                       
2    Business or Cause? Contested Goals                                   
3    We’re Taking Over! Constructing the Fan Base                   
4    Image Politics and Media (In)Visibility                               
Conclusion: Kicking Forward?                            
Appendices
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography                                             
Index
 

About the author

RACHEL ALLISON is an assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of gender studies at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.

Summary

Investigates a women's soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated centre of US professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, Rachel Allison demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.

Product details

Authors	Rachel Allison
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	31.08.2018
EAN	9780813586779
ISBN	978-0-8135-8677-9
No. of pages	220
Series	Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society; Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Subjects	Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Allison
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780813586779
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8677-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society; Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories