Michael A. Messner
- Professor of Sociology
- Professor of Gender Studies
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
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Expertise
- youth sports
- men's studies
- sociology of sports
- sociology of sex and gender
- gender and sports media
- men and masculinity
- men and feminist politics
- men's rights and other movements
- gamergate and gender attitudes
Additional Information
- Co-author of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women (2015)
- Author of It’s All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports (2009); Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity (1992); Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements (1997); Masculinities, Gender Relations and Sport (2000); and Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sports (2002)
- Co-author of Sex, Violence and Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity (1994)
- Editor of Sport, Men and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives (1990) and Men’s Lives, 8th ed. (2010)
- Co-editor of Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender (2000)
- Past President, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
- President, Pacific Sociological Association