Michael Messner
Michael Alan Messner (* 1952 ) is an American sociologist . His main research interests are gender , especially men's studies and sport sociology .
He is the director of the Sociology and Gender Studies Department at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles .
Messner received his bachelor's degree in social science and his master's degree in sociology from California State University at Chico . His Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California , Berkeley . He wrote his dissertation on masculinity and sports ( Masculinity and Sports: An Exploration of the Changing Meaning of Male Identity in the Lifecourse of the Athlete ).
In the late 1970s, he studied feminist theories about the construction of gender, which he applied to male gender roles . In Berkeley, he attended Bob Blauner's seminars on men and masculinity, the first to be offered in the United States on the subject.
Fonts (selection)
Books
- Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity, Beacon Press; Reissue edition 1995, ISBN 080704105X
- Men's Lives (with Michael Kimmel ). Macmillan, 1989, 1992, 1995.
- Sport, Men, and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives, (with Don F. Sabo) (ed.), Human Kinetics Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0873222814
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements, Thousand Oaks 1997, ISBN 0-8039-5576-6
- Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports, University of Minnesota Press, 2002, ISBN 0816634491
- (with McKay, Jim, Michael and Don Sabo) (Ed.): Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (Research on Men and Masculinities Series, No. 13), 2000
Essays
- Boyhood, Organized Sports and the Construction of Masculinities . In: Susan J. Ferguson: Mapping the social landscape: readings in sociology. , Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, Calif., 1996, ISBN 1559345519 .
- Michael A. Messner, Jeffrey Montez de Oca: The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events. In: Signs , Volume 30, No. 3, Spring 2005, pp. 1879-1909.
Web links
- Michael Messner's personal website
- Homepage at USC
- About Messner's approach to the connection between sport and male violence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Messner, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messner, Michael Alan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sports sociologist and gender researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |