Introduction: Kids and Sport
Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto
Part I. Playing Fields: The Social Landscape of Youth Sports
Chapter 1. Surveying Youth Sports in America: What We Know and What It Means for Public Policy
Chapter 2. Kids of Color in the American Sporting Landscape: Limited, Concentrated, and Controlled
Chapter 3. Girls and the Racialization of Female Bodies in Sport Contexts
Chapter 4. Sport and the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Chapter 5. The Children Are Our Future: The NFL, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Production of “Avid Fans”
Part II. Fields of Play: Kids Navigating Sport Worlds
Chapter 6. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming
Chapter 7. The Voices of Boys on Sport, Health, and Physical Activity: The Beginning of Life Through a Gendered Lens
Chapter 8. “We Have a Right to the Gym”: Physical Activity Experiences of East African Immigrant Girls
Chapter 9. Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Kids and the Binary Obstacles of Sport Participation in North America
Chapter 10. Examining Boys, Bodies, and PE Locker Room Spaces: “I Don’t Ever Set Foot in That Locker Room”
Chapter 11. Park “Rats” to Park “Daddies”: Community Heads Creating Future Mentors
Afterword: Kids, Sport Research, and Sport Policy
Notes on Contributors
Index