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Exploring the more sophisticated and nuanced perspective in the era of sports dominance in America, athletics have become both a metaphor and reality of American masculinity. Edited by three of the leading scholars at the intersection of masculinity and sports studies, this volume offers a fascinating articulation on the state of athletics in modern society. Each part of this volume examines a significant arena and tackles some of the most deeply rooted issues within the field of sports. From the mechanisms by which masculinity is interwoven into sports, to the violence encoded within the field, this book provides an insiders look at the state of gender relations being contested and transformed.
Wrestling with Gender: Physicality and Masculinities among Inner-City First and Second Graders
Wrestling with Gender: Physicality and Masculinities among Inner-City First and Second Graders
The achievement of a gendered identity and the invoking of gender as a means of making sense of the world are very important in the everyday lives of young children (Davies, 1989, 1993). Children engage in daily interactive practices that signify, reflect, and express gender. These gendering practices may be viewed as “disciplinary practices” that variously produce and privilege subordinate feminine and masculine bodies (Foucault, 1979). Children actively “do” gender (West & Zimmerman, 1991) by engaging in practices that create differences both between and among them. In the process, femininities (subordinate and emphasized) and masculinities (subordinate and hegemonic) are both reproduced and ...
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