In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of
males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and
passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however,
with girls' and women's dramatic movement into sport, the process
of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated --
and yet, as Michael Messner shows us in this provocative book, no
less effective. In Taking the Field, Messner argues that despite
profound changes, the world of sport largely retains and continues
its longtime conservative role in gender relations.
To explore the current paradoxes of gender in sport, Messner
identifies and investigates three levels at which the "center" of
sport is constructed: the day-to-day practices of sport
participants, the structured rules and hierarchies of sport
institutions, and the dominant symbols and belief systems
transmitted by the major sports media. Using these insights, he
analyzes a moment of gender construction in the lives of four- and
five-year-old children at a soccer opening ceremony, the way men's
violence is expressed through sport, the interplay of financial
interests and dominant men's investment in maintaining the status
quo in the face of recent challenges, and the cultural imagery at
the core of sport, particularly televised sports. Through these
examinations Messner lays bare the practices and ideas that
buttress -- as well as those that seek to disrupt -- the masculine
center of sport.
Taking the Field exposes the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in
which men and women collectively construct gender through their
interactions -- interactions contextualized in the institutions and
symbols of sport.
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