Michael A. Messner

Expert in the sociology of sports, especially related to masculinity and femininity, and youth leagues
  • Professor of Sociology
  • Professor of Gender Studies
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Office: (213) 740-8848

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