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Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds

By Michael A. Messner (Editor), Michela Musto (Editor), Don Sabo (Contribution by), Phil Veliz (Contribution by), Douglas Hartmann (Contribution by), Alex Manning (Contribution by), Cheryl Cooky (Contribution by), Lauren Rauscher (Contribution by), Toben F Nelson (Contribution by), Jeffrey Montez de Oca (Contribution by), Jeffrey Scholes (Contribution by), Brandon Meyer (Contribution by), Murray J. N. Drummond (Contribution by), Chelsey Thul (Contribution by), Nicole M. LaVoi (Contribution by), Torrie Hazelwood (Contribution by), Fatimah Hussein (Contribution by), Ann Travers (Contribution by), Michael Kehler (Contribution by), A. James McKeever (Contribution by), William A. Corsaro (Afterword)
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By Michael A. Messner (Editor), Michela Musto (Editor), Don Sabo (Contribution by), Phil Veliz (Contribution by), Douglas Hartmann (Contribution by), Alex Manning (Contribution by), Cheryl Cooky (Contribution by), Lauren Rauscher (Contribution by), Toben F Nelson (Contribution by), Jeffrey Montez de Oca (Contribution by), Jeffrey Scholes (Contribution by), Brandon Meyer (Contribution by), Murray J. N. Drummond (Contribution by), Chelsey Thul (Contribution by), Nicole M. LaVoi (Contribution by), Torrie Hazelwood (Contribution by), Fatimah Hussein (Contribution by), Ann Travers (Contribution by), Michael Kehler (Contribution by), A. James McKeever (Contribution by), William A. Corsaro (Afterword)
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Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well.

The eleven original scholarly essays in this coll...

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