Books

• It's all for the kids: Gender, families and youth sports. University of California Press, 2009.
• Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity, Beacon Press; Reissue edition 1995, ISBN 978-0-8070-4105-5
• Men's Lives (with Michael Kimmel). Macmillan, 1989, 1992, 1995, Allyn & Bacon 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010.
• Sport, Men, and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives, (with Don F. Sabo) (eds.), Human Kinetics Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-0-87322-281-5
• Sex, Violence and Power in Sports (with Donald F. Sabo), Crossing Press, 1994
• Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements, Thousand Oaks 1997, ISBN 978-0-8039-5576-9
• Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports, University of Minnesota Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8166-3449-1
• (with McKay, Jim, Michael and Don Sabo) (eds.): Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (Research on Men and Masculinities Series, No. 13), 2000
• Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport, State University of New York Press 2007, ISBN 978-7914-7172-2
• Paradoxes of Youth and Sport (with Margaret Gatz and Sandra Ball Rokeach, eds.) State University of New York Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7914-5324-3
• Gender Through the Prism of Difference, 3rd Ed. (with Maxine Baca Zinn and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005

Articles

• Michael A. Messner & Suzel Bozada-Deas (2009) “Separating the men from the moms: The making of adult sex segregation in youth sports” Gender & Society 23: 49-71.

• Michael A. Messner (2007) “The Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American Politics.” Gender & Society 21: 461-481.

• Michael A. Messner & Nancy M. Solomon (2007) “Social Justice and Men’s Interests: The Case of Title IX.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues: 31: 162-178.

• Michael A. Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan & Nicole Willms (2006) “This Revolution is Not Being Televised.” Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 5: 34-38.

• Michael A. Messner & Jeffrey Montez de Oca (2005) “The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30: 1879-1909.

• Boyhood, Organized Sports and the Construction of Masculinities." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18:416-444. Pipher, Mary. 1994 ([1] short summary)