No Game for Boys to Play
The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis
By Kathleen Bachynski
296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 halftones, 1 graph, 6 tables
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5370-9
Published: November 2019 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5369-3
Published: November 2019 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5371-6
Published: November 2019
Studies in Social Medicine
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By exploring sport, masculinity, and citizenship, Bachynski uncovers the cultural priorities other than child health that made a collision sport the most popular high school game for American boys. These deep-rooted beliefs continue to shape the safety debate and the possible future of youth tackle football.
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Kathleen Bachynski is assistant professor of public health at Muhlenberg College.
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“The way in which Bachynski describes the cultural and communal construction of safety, personal responsibility, and masculinity does much to explain the way we value particular forms of masculine identity in American society. Smart, salient, timely, eminently readable, and socially important.”—Stephen Casper, Clarkson University
“The future of American football will not be determined by a handful of NFL owners or a few hundred college presidents but by millions of parents deciding whether the game is too dangerous for their sons in the era of CTE. Kathleen Bachynski’s groundbreaking history of a century-long medical and cultural debate about youth football, its obvious risks and assumed benefits, could not be more timely.”–Michael Oriard, author of Bowled Over, Brand NFL, and King Football