Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael A. Messner (Editor), Michela Musto (Editor), Don Sabo (Contribution by)Series:Critical Issues in Sport and SocietyAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2016-05-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813571454ISBN-10:813571456UPC:9780813571454Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Developmental, Children's StudiesBook Topic:AdolescentSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC14PS69N1
Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds
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...
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813571454ISBN-10:813571456UPC:9780813571454Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Developmental, Children's StudiesBook Topic:AdolescentSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC14PS69N1
MICHAEL A. MESSNER is a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports and Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women. MICHELA MUSTO is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Southern California. Her work has...
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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