Kicking Center : Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer /
Allison, Rachel
Kicking Center : Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer / Rachel Allison. - 1 online resource (220 p.) : 5 b-w figures - Critical Issues in Sport and Society .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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? -- Appendix A: Participant Demographic Information -- Appendix B: Methods -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813586793
10.36019/9780813586793 doi
2017033843
Soccer for women--Social aspects--United States.
Soccer for women--United States.
Soccer--Social aspects--United States.
Women soccer players--United States.
SPORTS & RECREATION / General.
Women's National Team. disparities. gender. girls. inequality. professional. soccer. sports. women.
GV944.5 / .A44 2018
796.334
Kicking Center : Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer / Rachel Allison. - 1 online resource (220 p.) : 5 b-w figures - Critical Issues in Sport and Society .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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? -- Appendix A: Participant Demographic Information -- Appendix B: Methods -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813586793
10.36019/9780813586793 doi
2017033843
Soccer for women--Social aspects--United States.
Soccer for women--United States.
Soccer--Social aspects--United States.
Women soccer players--United States.
SPORTS & RECREATION / General.
Women's National Team. disparities. gender. girls. inequality. professional. soccer. sports. women.
GV944.5 / .A44 2018
796.334