| Description |
xxx, 377 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pioneering women in sport -- Olympic women : a struggle for recognition / Jennifer Hargreaves -- How I learned to ride the bicycle / Frances E. Willard -- World-beating Viking girl of Texas -- Playing nice : politics and apologies in women's sports / Mary Jo Festle -- Pioneers / J.E. Vader -- Riggs butchered by Ms. King as promoters score a million / Charles Maher -- "Mia" culpa : the all-too quiet retirement of Mia Hamm / David Zirin -- Negotiating masculinity and femininity : the female athlete as oxymoron -- Significance of basket ball for women / Senda Berenson -- Are athletics making girls masculine? : a practical answer to a question every girl asks / Dudley A. Sargent -- All-American girls professional baseball league rules of conduct, 1943-1954 / The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League -- Psychosocial impacts of athletic participation on American women : facts and fables / Don Sabo -- Throwing like a girl / James Fallows -- Living the paradox : female athletes negotiate femininity and muscularity / Vikki Krane ... [et al.] -- Competing bodies : physiological, biological, and psychological issues -- Chromosome count / Alison Carlson -- Closing the muscle gap / Ann Crittenden -- Understanding the female athlete triad / Irene McCormick -- Women and ACL injuries : taking the bad news with the good / Maureen Madden -- Catastrophic injuries in female athletes : cheerleading leads the list / Robert C. Cantu and Frederick O. Mueller -- Women, disability, and sport and physical fitness activity : the intersection of gender and disability dynamics / Elaine M. Blinde and Sarah G. McCallister -- Anabolic steroids : the gremlins of sport / Terry Todd -- Eating disorders and gymnastics / Ana Cintado -- Silence of great distance : women running long / Frank Murphy -- Coming home / Joli Sandoz -- Stronger women / Mariah Burton Nelson -- Building inequality into sport : institutionalized bias -- Structural constraints facing women in sport / Nancy Theberge and Susan Birrell -- Half-court basketball : power and sex / Heather Ross Miller -- "I can see the finish line" / Mark Starr -- Courting destiny / Raquel Cepeda -- Cold wars : inside the secret world of figure skating / Joan Ryan -- Rooting for Michelle : finding contradictions at the Winter Olympics / Bill Wong -- Breaking cultural traditions : culture, family play role in sports for Latina girls / Maryjo Sylwester -- On the rez / Ian Frazier -- Sexuality and sport -- Changing the game : homophobia, sexism, and lesbians in sport / Pat Griffin -- Homophobia alleged in University of Florida softball / Jim Buzinski -- Less ugly / Leslea Newman -- Sex, lies, and volleyball / Cynthia Hanson -- In the buff : female athletes take it all off / Penny Hastings -- A new image exposed / Tom Maloney -- Feminine image in sports and sports media -- Separating the men from the girls : the gendered language of televised sports / Michael Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, and Kerry Jensen -- Sport and society broadcast for Friday, August 16, 1996 / Richard C. Crepeau -- Women's sports film as the new melodrama / Jean O'Reilly -- It's time to tell the bloody truth / Lorie Conway -- Bloodsport : woman's first pro fight is her last / Joe Posnanski -- Offensive interface / Sherry Ricchiardi -- Law and equity : Title IX and its aftermath -- Title IX, education amendments of 1972 : Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1687-1688 / U.S. Department of Labor -- Title IX media helper / Women's Sports Foundation -- Brown University agrees to guarantee participation rates for women athletes and funding for contested women's teams / Trial Lawyers of Public Justice -- Title IX at 30 : report card on gender equity : athletics, C+ / The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education -- A train wreck called Title IX / George F. Will -- In the spirit of Title IX / Emily Badger -- Title IX : the good news, the bad news / California Women's Law Center. |
| Subject |
Sports for women -- United States.
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Sports for women. |
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United States. |
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Women athletes -- United States.
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Women athletes. |
| Added Author |
O'Reilly, Jean.
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Cahn, Susan K.
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| ISBN |
9781555536718 paperbback alkaline paper |
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1555536719 paperback alkaline paper |
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