Kicking center : gender and the selling of women's professional soccer
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書誌事項
Kicking center : gender and the selling of women's professional soccer
(Critical issues in sport and society)
Rutgers University Press, c2018
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-185) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South
Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women's National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000.
In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women's soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. 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. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women's soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men's territory.
目次
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
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