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Michael Messner

Sociology

#241

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#313

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#117

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Michael Messner's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Alan Messner is an American sociologist. His main areas of research are gender and the sociology of sports. He is the author of several books, he gives public speeches and teaches on issues of gender-based violence, the lives of men and boys, and gender and sports.

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Michael Messner's Published Works

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Published Works

Power at Play Sports and the Problem of Masculinity (1994) (1136)
Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain (1988) (651)
Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports (2002) (645)
Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements (1997) (515)
Sport, Men, and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives (1990) (481)
When bodies are weapons: Masculinity and violence in Sport (1990) (406)
Men's Lives. (1990) (405)
BOYHOOD, ORGANIZED SPORTS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITIES (1990) (309)
SEPARATING THE MEN FROM THE GIRLS: (1993) (300)
The Televised Sports Manhood Formula (2000) (267)
Women Play Sport, But Not on TV (2013) (244)
Sex, Violence & Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity (1994) (214)
Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport (2000) (214)
Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport (2007) (201)
Silence, Sports Bras, And Wrestling Porn (2003) (195)
“It’s Dude Time!” (2015) (194)
BARBIE GIRLS VERSUS SEA MONSTERS (2000) (191)
“Changing men” and feminist politics in the United States (1993) (190)
The Limits of “The Male Sex Role” (1998) (172)
Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity. (1993) (168)
MASCULINITIES AND ATHLETIC CAREERS (1989) (167)
The Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American Politics (2007) (150)
The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events (2005) (121)
Gender ideologies, youth sports, and the production of soft essentialism. (2011) (121)
It’s Not About the Game: Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Media (2010) (117)
Gender stereotyping in televised sports. (1994) (116)
Gender and sport. (1993) (96)
Some Men: Feminist Allies in the Movement to End Violence Against Women (2015) (96)
Gender Displays and Men’s Power: The “New Man” and the Mexican Immigrant Man (2013) (84)
The Gender of Audience Building: Televised Coverage of Women's and Men's NCAA Basketball* (2001) (77)
Studying up on Sex (1996) (77)
Equality with a Vengeance: Men’s Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash (2013) (75)
“From Fizzle to Sizzle!” Televised Sports News and the Production of Gender-Bland Sexism (2017) (71)
Men Studying Masculinity: Some Epistemological Issues in Sport Sociology (1990) (70)
Where are the Kids (2014) (69)
Separating the Men from the Moms (2009) (68)
Paradoxes of youth and sport (2003) (62)
10. “It’s Dude Time!” A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows (2019) (62)
White Guy Habitus in the Classroom (2000) (61)
Forks in the Road of Men’s Gender Politics: Men’s Rights vs Feminist Allies (2016) (54)
Gender Through the Prism of Difference (1999) (54)
Still a Man's World?: Studying Masculinities and Sport (2005) (50)
Power Play (1992) (50)
Reflections on Communication and Sport (2013) (46)
Outside the Frame: Newspaper Coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard Wife Abuse Story (1993) (43)
Bad Men, Good Men, Bystanders (2016) (42)
Like Family: Power, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Male Athletes' Friendships (1992) (41)
Hegemonic, Nonhegemonic, and “New” Masculinities (2018) (40)
When bodies are weapons (1992) (40)
Social Justice and Men's Interests (2007) (40)
Introduction: Studying sport, men and masculinities from feminist standpoints (2000) (37)
Men's lives (2nd ed.). (1992) (37)
BECOMING 100 PERCENT STRAIGHT (2005) (33)
One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–2019 (2021) (32)
No Slam Dunk (2018) (31)
This Revolution is not Being Televised (2006) (30)
Reflection: White Men Misbehaving: Feminism, Afrocentrism, and the Promise of a Critical Standpoint (1992) (27)
The Privilege of Teaching about Privilege (2011) (27)
The mass media and sport. (1993) (26)
Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research (2018) (23)
Introduction: Gender Relations and Sport (2002) (22)
Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender (1997) (22)
Gender in Televised Sports : 1989 , 1993 and 1999 (2000) (21)
5. Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters. Children Constructing Gender (2019) (19)
Boys to Men: Sports Media. Messages about Masculinity: A National Poll of Children, Focus Groups, and Content Analysis of Sports Programs and Commercials. (1999) (17)
Patriarchs and Losers:: Rethinking Men's Interests (2004) (16)
Ruling Out Rape (2014) (15)
Media Frames and Displacement of Blame in the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Incident: Sincere Fictions and Frenetic Inactivity (2012) (14)
11 Reflections on Communication and Sport. On Men and Masculinities (2019) (10)
The Meaning of Success: The Athletic Experience and the Development of Male Identity (2018) (10)
Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds (2016) (7)
Before prevention: The trajectory and tensions of feminist antiviolence (2014) (7)
8. Separating the Men from the Moms. The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports (2019) (6)
The Separation Solution: Single-Sex Education and the New Politics of Gender Equality (2017) (4)
FROM THE SECTION CHAIR (2007) (4)
The Gender Lens Series@@@Gender and the Social Construction of Illness@@@Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love@@@Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology@@@Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements (1998) (3)
Playing Fields: Power, Practice, and Passion in Sports (2013) (3)
Guns, intimacy, and the limits of militarized masculinity (2018) (3)
Book Review (2011) (3)
Our Queer Dilemma: Response to Davidson and Shogan (1998) (2)
Bubblegum and Surplus value (1976) (2)
Male Athletes, Injuries, and Violence (2018) (2)
White Men Misbehaving: Feminism, Afrocentrism, & the Promise of a Critical Standpoint. (1994) (1)
The Rules of the Game (1991) (1)
Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement (2021) (1)
Men's changing roles in the family: Edited by Robert A. Lewis and Marvin B. Sussman. New York/London: The Haworth Press, 1986, 277 pp., $29.95, $24.95. (1987) (1)
Unconventional Combat (2021) (1)
Sport in Kids’ Worlds: A Response to Laurendeau and Konecny (2015) (1)
“This is men’s work” (2015) (0)
Guys Like Me (2019) (0)
What is a Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS)? A CFPS Mentoring Panel (2005) (0)
Acknowledgement of external reviewers for 1997 (1998) (0)
“You’ve got to do something radical” (2021) (0)
Theorizing sport, gender and sexuality (2016) (0)
With Thanks (2011) (0)
Book Reviews : Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream (1992) (0)
The Reconstitution of Gender in Contemporary Society:: A Roundtable Discussion (2004) (0)
5. “They’re Different—and They’re Born Different”: Engendering the Kids (2019) (0)
Appendix 3. Proportion of AYSO and LLB/S Women Head Coaches in Communities Surrounding South Pasadena (2019) (0)
Introduction: Kids And Sport (2019) (0)
4. “You Don’t Have to be a Drill Sergeant”: Men at the Helm (2019) (0)
Review essay: Women's public lives (1988) (0)
Playing : sport as gendered and sexualized practice (2016) (0)
Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (1989) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (1989) (0)
Appendix 4. In the Field (2019) (0)
Appendix 1. Demographic Description of Interview Subjects (2019) (0)
Reflection (1992) (0)
Breaking Up the Stag Party: Jessie Bernard’s Pioneering Work on Men (2021) (0)
“I was in unconventional combat” (2021) (0)
Male allies and the politics of feminist accountability (2014) (0)
6. “It’s a Safe and Fun Place for Kids”: Youth Sports, Families, and the Good Community (2019) (0)
Watching : the gender and sexuality of mediated sport (2016) (0)
Appendix 2. Racial/Ethnic Composition of South Pasadena LLB/S and AYSO Coaches and of the City of South Pasadena (2019) (0)
Action at intersections (2021) (0)
Book Review: The Mourning After: Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men (2019) (0)
Acknowledgement of external reviewers for 1997 (1998) (0)
Bodies : sport and the production of gender and sexuality (2016) (0)
12. It’s Not about the Game Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Media (2019) (0)
Men in families: Edited by Robert A. Lewis and Robert E. Salt. Beverly Hills/ London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1986, 288 pp. $29.00, $14.95. (1987) (0)
Rethinking Men9s Interests (2016) (0)
THE TELEVISED PORTS MANHOOD FORMULA THE TELEVISED SPORTS MANHOOD FORMULA (2000) (0)
“Rip off the band-aid” (2021) (0)
Rethinking Patriarchy through Unpatriarchal Male Desires (2019) (0)
3. Gender Relations and Sport Local, National, Transnational (2019) (0)
Earning Your Ally Badge (2015) (0)
1. Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism (2019) (0)
3. “We Don’t Like Chick Coaches”: Women at the Helm (2019) (0)
Index to Volume 30 (2000) (0)
Sport, men, and masculinity. (1985) (0)
“Connecting the dots” (2021) (0)
2. “Looking for a Team Mom”: Separating the Men from the Moms (2019) (0)
NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES (1992) (0)

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