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Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women's National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women's soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women's soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men's territory.

Soccer for women --- Soccer --- Women soccer players --- Social aspects --- Women's National Team. --- disparities. --- gender. --- girls. --- inequality. --- professional. --- soccer. --- sports. --- women.

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"What happens to the things we so casually throw away? In fact, much of our trash makes its way to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where it joins one of the largest accumulations of human consumer waste on the planet. Artist and storyteller Rachel Hope Allison's debut graphic novel brings to life the plight of our oceans in a moving fable about beauty, loneliness, and hope. In association with JeffCorwin Connect (TM) Inc., I'm not a plastic bag illuminates how our behavior as consumers is slowly destroying our beautiful oceans, and shows us how each person has a role to play in protecting the planet we call home."--P. [4] of cover.