Kicking Center - Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Release date:	August 2018
Authors:	Rachel Allison
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-8677-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Football (Soccer, Association football) > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-8677-1
Barcode:	9780813586779

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