Managing Gender

Jim McKay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and author of No Pain, No Gain? Sport and Australian Culture.

"The book has tremendous breadth and is theoretically bold … Its relevance and significance for affirmative action studies on race and gender relations in organizations within and outside the United States is profound." — Gender & Society"Managing Gender will add significantly to the ever-increasing literature in the area of 'gender and sport,' most of which emanates from the United States and, therefore, focuses primarily on American culture. It will be a valuable addition as well to the sport management and organizational analysis literature that has not paid serious enough attention to gender or to the increasing scholarship on feminist organizations and feminist theoretical discussions of organizational analysis theory." — Ann Hall, author of Feminism and Sporting Bodies: Essays on Theory and Practice"McKay is probably the most visible and significant scholar doing this kind of work in Australia today. He builds a case for a sociological analysis of sports as a gendered institution by looking at different sites of its organization and deployment. McKay's analysis is sharp and the stories interesting." — Michael Kimmel, State University of New York at Stony Brook"This book provides a useful and timely example of the ways in which legislated equity initiatives can be resisted, subverted, and coopted not only by those whose power and privilege are threatened (in this case, most men) but also by some women. The extensive excerpts from the interviews provide graphic evidence of the extent of the problem." — Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, University of Toronto, author of Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality and Women, Sport and Physical Activity

• List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction "The Search for Mr. Right"Profeminist ResearchProfeminist Research and SportSummary2. Theoretical Framework Thinking Institutionally about Gender and OrganizationsGender and Social ConstructionismGendered Structures of Labor, Power, and CathexisImplications for Gender and SportSummary3. The Corporate-Managerial State, Gender, and Sport The Rise of the Corporate-Managerial StateAffirmative Action in The Corporate-Managerial StateImplications for Affirmative Action in SportSummary4. Structures of Labor, Power, and Cathexis MethodsStructures of LaborStructures of PowerStructures of CathexisSummary5. "Doing" Affirmative Action Affirmative Action OpponentsAffirmative Action Skeptics and CynicsAffirmative Action AdvocatesOrganizations that Make Affirmative Action WorkSummary6. The Write Stuff? Media Representations of Affirmative Action in Australian Sport The Mass Media and the Social Construction of GenderSports Journalism and "Groupthink"The "Paranoia of the Powerful"Summary7. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Gender Politics of Affirmative Action Policy Research Intellectual Work and Cultural PolicyBackground to the ReportThe Commission's Response to the Report"Talking to the ISAs" Or "Dialogue with the Deaf"Summary8. One Cheer for Affirmative Action The Limits of Affirmative ActionChanging Organizational CulturesChanging MenChanging SportWho and What Is Changing Whom?SummaryAppendix 1: Organizational Affiliations of Interviewees Appendix 2: Questionnaire on the Status of Women Sport Executives Appendix 3: Quantitative Summaries of Australian Respondents' Perceptions of Their Organizations Bibliography Subject Index Name Index