Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer by Rachel Allison (Book review)
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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.
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Gender & Society
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33
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Pavlidis, A, Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer by Rachel Allison (Book review), Gender & Society, 2019, 33 (3), pp. 488-490. Copyright 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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Pavlidis, A, Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer by Rachel Allison (Book review), Gender & Society, 2019, 33 (3), pp. 488-490