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The Resource Child's play : sport in kids' worlds, edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto

Child's play : sport in kids' worlds, edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto

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"Child's Play collects state-of-the-art research on sport in children's worlds, studies that illuminate scholarly questions in the burgeoning sociological and interdisciplinary fields of children and youth, bodies and health, and intersectional analyses of social inequality. At the heart of Child's Play is a critical scholarly engagement with the question of how, when, and under what conditions sport is good for kids. The chapters in the first half of the book illuminate with broad brush-strokes what we know about kids and youth sports, and they ask probing questions about the role of sport in schools, health policy, race and gender relations, and social mobility. Together, these chapters critically assess the ways in which organizations, corporations and the state target kids with sport-related policies and marketing schemes. The second half of the book consists of interview-based, participant-observation and ethnographic studies by scholars who have entered into children's worlds to explore how youth make meanings, shape identities and relationships in sport; how sport participation connects with other things kids do in their daily lives (including school, family life, peer groups, adult mentors, health and violence, etc.). Throughout the text, Child's Play is attentive to differences and inequalities among kids: how different sport opportunities and experiences shape gender for boys, girls, Muslim immigrant girls and transgender kids, and the ways that race/ethnicity and social class differently constrain and enable kids' access to and experiences with youth sport"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
viii, 256 pages
Contents
  • Surveying youth sports in America : what we know and what it means for public policy / Don Sabo and Philip Veliz
  • Kids of color in the American sporting landscape : limited, concentrated, and controlled / Douglas Hartmann and Alex Manning
  • Girls and the racialization of female bodies in sport contexts / Cheryl Cooky and Lauren Rauscher
  • Sport and the childhood obesity epidemic / Toben F. Nelson
  • The children are our future : the NFL, corporate social responsibility, and the production of "avid fans" / Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, and Brandon Meyer
  • Athletes in the pool, girls and boys on deck : the contextual construction of gender in coed youth swimming / Michela Musto
  • The voices of boys on sport, health, and physical activity : the beginning of life through a gendered lens / Murray J.N. Drummond
  • "A right to the gym" : physical activity experiences of East African immigrant girls / Chelsey M. Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie F. Hazelwood, and Fatimah Hussein
  • Transgender and gender-nonconforming kids and the binary requirements of sport participation in North America / Ann Travers
  • Examining boys, bodies, and PE locker room spaces : "I don't ever set foot in that locker room" / Michael Kehler
  • Park "rats" to park "daddies" : community heads creating future mentors / A. James McKeever
  • Afterword : Kids, sport research, and sport policy / William A. Corsaro
Isbn
9780813571454
Instance
Label
Child's play : sport in kids' worlds
Title
Child's play
Title remainder
sport in kids' worlds
Statement of responsibility
edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Child's Play collects state-of-the-art research on sport in children's worlds, studies that illuminate scholarly questions in the burgeoning sociological and interdisciplinary fields of children and youth, bodies and health, and intersectional analyses of social inequality. At the heart of Child's Play is a critical scholarly engagement with the question of how, when, and under what conditions sport is good for kids. The chapters in the first half of the book illuminate with broad brush-strokes what we know about kids and youth sports, and they ask probing questions about the role of sport in schools, health policy, race and gender relations, and social mobility. Together, these chapters critically assess the ways in which organizations, corporations and the state target kids with sport-related policies and marketing schemes. The second half of the book consists of interview-based, participant-observation and ethnographic studies by scholars who have entered into children's worlds to explore how youth make meanings, shape identities and relationships in sport; how sport participation connects with other things kids do in their daily lives (including school, family life, peer groups, adult mentors, health and violence, etc.). Throughout the text, Child's Play is attentive to differences and inequalities among kids: how different sport opportunities and experiences shape gender for boys, girls, Muslim immigrant girls and transgender kids, and the ways that race/ethnicity and social class differently constrain and enable kids' access to and experiences with youth sport"--
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Dewey number
796.083
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
GV709.2
LC item number
.C474 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Messner, Michael A.
  • Musto, Michela
Series statement
Critical issues in sport and society
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  • Sports for children
  • Sports for children
  • Sports for children
  • SPORTS & RECREATION
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Sports for children
  • Sports for children
  • Sports for children
  • Kindersport
  • Jugendsport
  • Sportpsychologie
  • Sportsoziologie
Label
Child's play : sport in kids' worlds, edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Surveying youth sports in America : what we know and what it means for public policy / Don Sabo and Philip Veliz -- Kids of color in the American sporting landscape : limited, concentrated, and controlled / Douglas Hartmann and Alex Manning -- Girls and the racialization of female bodies in sport contexts / Cheryl Cooky and Lauren Rauscher -- Sport and the childhood obesity epidemic / Toben F. Nelson -- The children are our future : the NFL, corporate social responsibility, and the production of "avid fans" / Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, and Brandon Meyer -- Athletes in the pool, girls and boys on deck : the contextual construction of gender in coed youth swimming / Michela Musto -- The voices of boys on sport, health, and physical activity : the beginning of life through a gendered lens / Murray J.N. Drummond -- "A right to the gym" : physical activity experiences of East African immigrant girls / Chelsey M. Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie F. Hazelwood, and Fatimah Hussein -- Transgender and gender-nonconforming kids and the binary requirements of sport participation in North America / Ann Travers -- Examining boys, bodies, and PE locker room spaces : "I don't ever set foot in that locker room" / Michael Kehler -- Park "rats" to park "daddies" : community heads creating future mentors / A. James McKeever -- Afterword : Kids, sport research, and sport policy / William A. Corsaro
Control code
ocn930257351
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 256 pages
Isbn
9780813571454
Lccn
2015028619
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780813571454
  • (OCoLC)930257351
Label
Child's play : sport in kids' worlds, edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Surveying youth sports in America : what we know and what it means for public policy / Don Sabo and Philip Veliz -- Kids of color in the American sporting landscape : limited, concentrated, and controlled / Douglas Hartmann and Alex Manning -- Girls and the racialization of female bodies in sport contexts / Cheryl Cooky and Lauren Rauscher -- Sport and the childhood obesity epidemic / Toben F. Nelson -- The children are our future : the NFL, corporate social responsibility, and the production of "avid fans" / Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, and Brandon Meyer -- Athletes in the pool, girls and boys on deck : the contextual construction of gender in coed youth swimming / Michela Musto -- The voices of boys on sport, health, and physical activity : the beginning of life through a gendered lens / Murray J.N. Drummond -- "A right to the gym" : physical activity experiences of East African immigrant girls / Chelsey M. Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie F. Hazelwood, and Fatimah Hussein -- Transgender and gender-nonconforming kids and the binary requirements of sport participation in North America / Ann Travers -- Examining boys, bodies, and PE locker room spaces : "I don't ever set foot in that locker room" / Michael Kehler -- Park "rats" to park "daddies" : community heads creating future mentors / A. James McKeever -- Afterword : Kids, sport research, and sport policy / William A. Corsaro
Control code
ocn930257351
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 256 pages
Isbn
9780813571454
Lccn
2015028619
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780813571454
  • (OCoLC)930257351

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