Michael A. Messner Michela Musto William A., PH.D. Corsaro
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...
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemni...
Michael A. Messner Michela Musto William A., PH.D. Corsaro
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...
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemni...
No Slam Dunk provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been "No Slam Dunk."
No Slam Dunk provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social chan...
