Child's Play : : Sport in Kids' Worlds / / ed. by Michael A. Messner, Michela Musto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Cooky, Cheryl,; Corsaro, William A.,; Drummond, Murray J. N.,; Hartmann, Douglas,; Hazelwood, Torrie F.,; Hussein, Fatimah,; Kehler, Michael,; LaVoi, Nicole M.,; Manning, Alex,; McKeever, A. James,; Messner, Michael A.,; Meyer, Brandon,; Musto, Michela,; Nelson, Toben F.,; Oca, Jeffrey Montez de,; Rauscher, Lauren,; Sabo, Don,; Scholes, Jeffrey,; Thul, Chelsey M.,; Travers, Ann,; Veliz, Philip,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cooky, Cheryl.; Corsaro, William A.; Drummond, Murray J. N.; Hartmann, Douglas.; Hazelwood, Torrie.; Hussein, Fatimah.; Kehler, Michael.; LaVoi, Nicole M.; Manning, Alex.; McKeever, A. James.; Meyer, Brandon.; Nelson, Toben F.; Oca, Jeffrey Montez de.; Rauscher, Lauren.; Sabo, Don.; Scholes, Jeffrey.; Thul, Chelsey.; Travers, Ann.; Veliz, Phil.
• HerausgeberIn: Messner, Michael A.,; Musto, Michela,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 illustrations, 8 graphs, 3 tables

Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well. The eleven original scholarly essays in this collection provide a probing look into how sports-in community athletic leagues, in schools, and even on television-play a major role in how young people view themselves, shape their identities, and imagine their place in society. Rather than focusing exclusively on self-proclaimed jocks, the book considers how the culture of sports affects a wide variety of children and young people, including those who opt out of athletics. Not only does Child's Play examine disparities across lines of race, class, and gender, it also offers detailed examinations of how various minority populations, from transgender youth to Muslim immigrant girls, have participated in youth sports. Taken together, these essays offer a wide range of approaches to understanding the sociology of youth sports, including data-driven analyses that examine national trends, as well as ethnographic research that gives a voice to individual kids. Child's Play thus presents a comprehensive and compelling analysis of how, for better and for worse, the culture of sports is integral to the development of young people-and with them, the future of our society.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Kids And Sport -- Part I. Playing Fields: The Social Landscape Of Youth Sports -- 1. Surveying Youth Sports In America: What We Know And What It Means For Public Policy -- 2. Kids Of Color In The American Sporting Landscape: Limited, Concentrated, And Controlled -- 3. Girls And The Racialization Of Female Bodies In Sport Contexts -- 4. Sport And The Childhood Obesity Epidemic -- 5. The Children Are Our Future: The NFL, Corporate Social Responsibility, And The Production Of "Avid Fans" -- Part II. Fields Of Play: Kids Navigating Sport Worlds -- 6. Athletes In The Pool, Girls And Boys On Deck: The Contextual Construction Of Gender In Coed Youth Swimming -- 7. The Voices Of Boys On Sport, Health, And Physical Activity: The Beginning Of Life Through A Gendered Lens -- 8. "A Right To The Gym": Physical Activity Experiences Of East African Immigrant Girls -- 9. Transgender And Gender-Nonconforming Kids And The Binary Requirements Of Sport Participation In North America -- 10. Examining Boys, Bodies, And Pe Locker Room Spaces: "I Don'T Ever Set Foot In That Locker Room" -- 11. Park "Rats" To Park "Daddies": Community Heads Creating Future Mentors -- Afterword: Kids, Sport Research, And Sport Policy -- Notes On Contributors -- Index