Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport

Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport

Author: Jim McKay

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000-05-26

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 076191272X

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The papers in this collection consider how the study of masculinities in sport can be integrated with critical feminist studies, how to deal with the tendency to over-emphasize negative outcomes and the increasing trend to violence in sport.


Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport

Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport

Author: Jim McKay

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000-05-26

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780761912729

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The papers in this collection consider how the study of masculinities in sport can be integrated with critical feminist studies, how to deal with the tendency to over-emphasize negative outcomes and the increasing trend to violence in sport.


Sport, Masculinities and the Body

Sport, Masculinities and the Body

Author: Ian Wellard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1135218625

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This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully - and the consequences of these actions play a significant part in the ability of the individual to continue to take part. Through participant observations, sporting life-history interviews (with over forty men) and research with children, this book examines the ways in which 'appropriate' sporting masculinities are learned and enacted to varying degrees of success. Wellard highlights the social processes which impact upon individual constructions and formulations of masculine identity and reviews these in relation to broader debates on gender, embodiment and sporting participation. This book contributes not only to the academic fields of sport and gender, but also to the efforts to confront continued forms of 'accepted' gender discrimination.


Masculinities

Masculinities

Author: R. W. Connell

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0745634265

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This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.


Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport

Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport

Author: Victoria Robinson

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2008-10-15

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 184520137X

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This book offers the first in depth study of this one particular extreme sport, rock climbing, and uses it as a case study to examine at how men "do" masculinity in a sporting environment. The book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on issues surrounding masculine identity, and challenges traditional approaches to sport studies. It also presents new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the everyday and the pursuit of the extraordinary through sport. Drawing on insights from sociology, gender, masculinity studies and sports studies, this book will be of interest to a broad range of students and researchers in these areas.


Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities

Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities

Author: Michael S. Kimmel

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780761923695

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The handbook provides a broad view of masculinities primarily across the social sciences, but including important debates in areas of the humanities & natural sciences.


Men, Masculinity and the Media

Men, Masculinity and the Media

Author: Steve Craig

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1992-02-26

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0803941633

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Although studies of men and masculinity have gained momentum, little has been published that focuses on the media and their relationship to men as men. Men, Masculinity and the Media addresses this shortcoming. Scholars from across the social sciences investigate past media research on men and masculinity. They also examine how the media serve to construct masculinities, how men and their relationships have been depicted and how men respond to media images. From comic books and rock music to film and television, this groundbreaking volume scrutinizes the interrelationship among men, the media and masculinity.


Taking the Field

Taking the Field

Author: Michael A. Messner

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9780816634491

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A hard-hitting look at the persistent inequities in women{u2019}s sports participation. Michael Messner argues that despite profound changes, the world of sport largely retains and continues its longtime conservative role in gender relations.


Gender Relations in Sport

Gender Relations in Sport

Author: Emily A. Roper

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-01-06

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9462094551

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Designed primarily as a textbook for upper division undergraduate courses in gender and sport, gender issues, sport sociology, cultural sport studies, and women’s studies, Gender Relations in Sport provides a comprehensive examination of the intersecting themes and concepts surrounding the study of gender and sport. The 16 contributors, leading scholars from sport studies, present key issues, current research perspectives and theoretical developments within nine sub-areas of gender and sport: • Gender and sport participation • Theories of gender and sport • Gender and sport media • Sexual identity and sport • Intersections of race, ethnicity and gender in sport • Framing Title IX policy using conceptual metaphors • Studying the athletic body • Sexual harassment and abuse in sport • Historical developments and current issues from a European perspective The intersecting themes and concepts across chapters are also accentuated. Such a publication provides access to the study of gender relations in sport to students across a variety of disciplines. Emily A. Roper, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Sam Houston State University. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and sport.