Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer

by Rachel Allison

Book Overview

Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award by Sociologists for Women in Society-South

Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women's National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081358678X
• ISBN13: 9780813586786
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"