Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Autor Rachel Allisonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 aug 2018 – vârsta ani
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813586779
ISBN-10: 0813586771
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 5 b-w figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Critical Issues in Sport and Society
ISBN-10: 0813586771
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 5 b-w figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Notă biografică
RACHEL ALLISON is an assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of gender studies at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
“A critical and much-needed addition to the scholarship on soccer in general and women’s soccer in particular. This book fills so many knowledge gaps that it is nothing short of a gift to either sports fan or sociologist.”
“With the 1999 Women’s World Cup as her starting point, Rachel Allison traces the complex reasons why a glass ceiling exists on women’s advancement in professional sports. She offers a sophisticated, rigorous, and engaging account of how women’s sports leagues operate and how women’s soccer has been sold in the U.S. Anyone who cares about the future of women’s sports should read this book.”
“Kicking Center is an engaging, well-written book. Allison offers just the right mix of academic findings and pop-culture references and provocations. This original work raises important questions and then answers them with vim, precision, and rigor.”
"Engendering Fandom: Audience Building in Women’s Professional Soccer" by Rachel Allison
"A Sociological View on Selling Women’s Soccer: A Conversation with Dr. Rachel Allison," by RJ Allen
"One of the most comprehensive books on women and sport to come out in recent years....Those working in sport—including and perhaps especially men—to pick up this book and read it with an open mind."
"Allison convincingly demonstrates the systematic marginalization of women’s athletics and athletes, who nonetheless challenge the inequalities they routinely face. Recommended."
"The sexism behind the ‘controversy’ over the U.S. women’s soccer team’s 13 goals," by Rachel Allison
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/14/sexism-behind-controversy-over-us-womens-soccer-teams-goals/?utm_term=.82bdd447ef0a
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/14/sexism-behind-controversy-over-us-womens-soccer-teams-goals/?utm_term=.82bdd447ef0a
"Allison’s study reveals a complex field were women in sports have to navigate a thorny terrain – not be too feminine and sexy, not too butch, but still professional and gaining attention."
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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.