Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds

by Michael A. Messner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813571456
• ISBN13: 9780813571454
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher