Tag: Michael A. Messner

Michael A. Messner’s The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024 (Rutgers University Press), here reviewed by Alexis Sossa, emerges as a richly textured and deeply insightful sociological exploration of American high school life, deftly using sports as a lens to dissect the complex interplay of evolving gender dynamics, enduring social disparities, and the multi-faceted construction of community identity. Crucially, the book makes excellent use of plentiful photographs from the Salinas High School’s El Gabilan yearbooks.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: 'The Role of Emotion Regulation and Age in Experiencing Mediated Sports by Irene I. van Driel and Walter Gantz.

As the editors of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change (Rutgers UP), Cheryl Cooky and Mike Messner has collected articles from the last few years by themselves alone or with others on the subject of gender and sport. Alan Bairner expected “an original and possibly highly innovative contribution", but finds solace in the availability of good, albeit oldish, articles in a single volume.

Ingela Kolfjord Hälsa och Samhälle, Malmö högskolaMichael A. Messner Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport 225 sidor, hft. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press 2007...

Susanna Hedenborg Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap. Malmö högskolaMichael A. Messner It’s All for the Kids: Gender, Families and Youth Sports 260 sidor, inb. Berleley, CA: University of California Press...

Anders Östnäs Socialhögskolan i LundD. Stanley Eitzen (red) Sport in Contemporary Society: An Anthology 10th ed., 344 sid Oxford University Press 2014 ISBN 978-0-19-020277-4Denna bok är en klassiker inom det idrottssociologiska fältet i USA. Den...

Peter Dahlén Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap. Universitetet i BergenDEN MODERNA TÄVLINGSIDROTTEN har sedan starten varit en av samhällets mest manlighetsdominerade och maskulina institutioner. En viss...

Karin Redelius Institutionen för idrott och hälsovetenskap, Idrottshögskolan i Stockholm I USA har det under större delen av 1900-talet funnits en allmän och vida spridd uppfattning...

Håkan Larsson Nyligen har det stora engelska förlaget Routledge publicerat två böcker om kön/genus och idrott, två böcker där problemområdet är gemensamt, men där sättet...