Masculinities, Gender Relationships And Sport

Description: Exploring the more sophisticated and nuanced perspectives that have emerged on the study of gender, men and sport, this book considers three central questions: how can the study of maculinities in sport be integrated with critical feminist studies; how can researchers deal with the tendency in critical sport sociology to overemphasize negative outcomes; and how the study of masculinity and gender can best be consolidated with analyses of race and ethnicity, social class and sexual orientation. The book concludes with a discussion of the ways in which the dominant forms of gender relations in sport are being contested and transformed. Table of Contents: Forword - Michael S Kimmel Sudying Sport, Men and Masculinities from Feminist Standpoints - Jim McKay, Michael A Messner and Don Sabo PART ONE: EVERDAY CONSTRUCTIONS OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY Wrestling with Gender - Cynthia A Hasbrook and Othello Harris Physicality and Masculinities Among Inner-City First and Second Graders Moms, Sisters, and Ladies - Stephan R Walk Women Student Trainers in Men's Intercollegiate Sport The Morality/Masculinity Paradox - Shari Lee Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs Masculinity, Sport, and the Media Dueling Machos - Alan M Klein Masculinity and Sport in Mexican Baseball PART TWO: MEN'S VIOLENCE AND SPORT 'Be a Buddy to your Buddy' - Laurence De Garis Male Identity, Aggression and Intimacy in a Boxing Gym Researching Sports Injury - Kevin Young and Philip White Reconstructing Dangerous Masculinities Domestic Violence and Televised Athletic Events - Don Sabo, Philip M Gray and Linda A Moore 'It's a Man Thing' Athletic Affiliation and Violence Against Women - Todd Crosset Toward a Structural Prevention Project Booze and Bar Fights - Timothy Jon Curry A Journey to the Dark Side of College Athletics After the War? Soccer, Masculinity, and Violence in Northern Ireland - Alan Bairner PART THREE: CONTESTING THE GENDER REGIME OF SPORT Conceptions of Masculinity and Gender Transgressions in Sport Among Adolescent Boys - Suzanne Laberge and Mathieu Albert Hegemony, Contestation, and the Social Class Dynamic Homosexuality and Sport - Brian Pronger Who's Winning? Panic Sport and the Racialized Masculine Body - David Rowe, Jim McKay, and Toby Miller Dennis Rodman-Do You Feel Feminine Yet? - Michele D Dunbar Black Masculinity, Gender Transgression, and Reproductive Rebellion on MTV