Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer by Rachel Allison (Book review)

Abstract

Rachel Allison’s book, Kicking Center is one of the most comprehensive books on women and sport to come out in recent years. Based on in-depth ethnographic work, including an 11-month period “interning” with one of the Women’s Professional Soccer teams (given the pseudonym of “Momentum”) in 2011 and interviewing players and a broad range of sport administrators.