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

Informationen zum Autor RACHEL ALLISON is an assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of gender studies at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. Klappentext 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! she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Zusammenfassung 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, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Allison
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780813586786
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8678-6
• 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