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In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls' and women's dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated -- and yet, as Michael Messner shows us in this provocative book, no less effective. In Taking the Field, Messner argues that despite profound changes, the world of sport largely retains and continues its longtime conservative role in gender relations. To explore the current paradoxes of gender in sport, Messner identifies and investigates three levels at which the "center" of sport is constructed: the day-to-day practices of sport participants, the structured rules and hierarchies of sport institutions, and the dominant symbols and belief systems transmitted by the major sports media. Using these insights, he analyzes a moment of gender construction in the lives of four- and five-year-old children at a soccer opening ceremony, the way men's violence is expressed through sport, the interplay of financial interests and dominant men's investment in maintaining the status quo in the face of recent challenges, and the cultural imagery at the core of sport, particularly televised sports. Through these examinations Messner lays bare the practices and ideas that buttress -- as well as those that seek to disrupt -- the masculine center of sport. Taking the Field exposes the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which men and women collectively construct gender through their interactions -- interactions contextualized in the institutions and symbols of sport.

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Invented sport - An invented sport refers to a modern-day sport which is conceived and developed by a single person, team, or committee. Unlike most sports, which are derived from pre-existing pastimes or sport-like activities, invented sports have a direct lineage to a complete set of rules designed by an inventor to be different than what was before, rather than an improvement or codification of an existing sport or contest.

Minority sport - A minority sport is one which has very little following or participation in a particular region or state. While followers of a minority sport will be just as passionate and enthusiastic as a follower of a mainstream sport, but will suffer for having to make more sacrifices in order to follow their sport.

Nationalism and sport - Nationalism and sport are often intertwined, as sports provide a venue for symbolic competition between nations; sports competition often reflects national conflict, and in fact has often been a tool of diplomacy. The involvement of political goals in sport is seen by some as contrary to the fundamental ethos of sport being carried on for its own sake, for the enjoyment of its participants, but this involvement has been true throughout the history of sport.

Pulp Sport - Pulp Sport is a New Zealand TV show that mixes sport with comedy that first started it's life on Radio Sport in 2001 and was the Number 1 show, in Auckland, on a Sunday night, between 9:30 and 11. The TV series then started in 2003 on Sky Sport and is hosted by Bill and Ben.

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