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RACHEL ALLISON is an assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of gender studies at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.

Kicking Center

Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-8135-8677-9
Verlag: Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 30.08.2018
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780813586779
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-8135-8677-9
  • Verlag: Rutgers University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.08.2018
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2018
  • Serie: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 296 g
  • Seiten: 220
  • Format (B x H x T): 151 x 228 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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