Title Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy.

Publication Info.	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]
	©2003

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	GV709.18.U6 H49 2003	Available	---

Description	xxix, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Sport and culture series ; v. 5
	Sport and culture series ; v. 5.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-204) and index.
Contents	Foreword / Julie Foudy -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue : women we love who kick butt -- 1. Powered up or dreaming? -- 2. Sport as the stealth feminism of the Third Wave -- 3. A new look at female athletes and masculinity -- 4. Bodies, babes, and the WNBA -- 5. Body panic parity -- 6. She will beat you up, and your papa, too -- Epilogue : it's an image -- appendix. Focus-group research on youth attitudes about female athletes -- Notes -- Index.
Subject	Sports for women -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Sports for women -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	Sports for women.
	Women athletes -- United States.
	Women athletes.
	Feminism and sports -- United States.
	Feminism and sports.
	Sex discrimination in sports -- United States.
	Sex discrimination in sports.
Added Author	Dworkin, Shari L.
ISBN	0816636249 paperback alkaline paper
	0816636230 alkaline paper