It’s All for the Kids: Gender, Families and Youth Sports
April 6, 2009 12:37 PM
by Michael A. Messner
University of California Press, $21.95
The past 30 years has seen an influx of girls involved in youth sports, yet women are still largely absent from coaching positions. For seven years, Michael A. Messner, professor of sociology and gender studies at USC College, studied this phenomenon and found that despite the movement of girls into sports, gender boundaries and hierarchies still dominate, especially among the adults who run youth sports. Weaving together interviews and his own experiences as a volunteer for his sons’ teams in South Pasadena, his book explores why youth sports matter and how they play shape gender, class, family and community.
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