Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport (SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) - Tapa dura

"This book provides a valuable introduction to the issues concerning gender in sport while also maintaining a sophisticated level of analysis ... Messner's innovative work certainly deserves reprinting, and this volume conveniently self-selects some of his most influential arguments." -- Signs

"In Out of Play, Michael Messner tells a fascinating story about the gender dynamics at play in late twentieth-century organized sports ... The brilliance of Messner's volume lies in its ability to combine analysis of materially based institutional structures and media-based representations that together project the gender ideologies that at any given moment help constitute the world of sports." -- American Journal of Play

"Messner takes the topic of gender to new heights ... will be an appealing, eye-opening, and frightening read for anyone interested in sports, women's studies, gender studies, or American culture in general." -- CHOICE

"There is a tremendous range, depth, and quality to Messner's scholarship that has had a profound impact on the field. Reading the selections is somewhat akin to retracing the innovations and developments of the field over the past two decades--and Messner has been at the cutting edge at every turn." -- Douglas Hartmann, author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath