Seven Faces Of Womens Sport

Author : Irene A. Reid
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787439666
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Faces of Women's Sport written by Irene A. Reid and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connections between women's experiences of and contributions to sport as a profession, product and pastime. This collection brings together insights and experiences from academics, activists, players and practitioners to critically reflect upon contemporary women's sport.

Author : Irene A. Reid
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787437108
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Faces of Women's Sport written by Irene A. Reid and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connections between women's experiences of and contributions to sport as a profession, product and pastime. This collection brings together insights and experiences from academics, activists, players and practitioners to critically reflect upon contemporary women's sport.

Author : Michael A. Messner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479781
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Play written by Michael A. Messner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title From beer ads in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to four-year-old boys and girls playing soccer; from male athletes' sexual violence against women to homophobia and racism in sport, Out of Play analyzes connections between gender and sport from the 1980s to the present. The book illuminates a wide range of contemporary issues in popular culture, children's sports, and women's and men's college and professional sports. Each chapter is preceded by a short introduction that lays out the context in which the piece was written. Drawing on his own memories as a former athlete, informal observations of his children's sports activities, and more formal research such as life-history interviews with athletes and content analyses of sports media, Michael A. Messner presents a multifaceted picture of gender constructed through an array of personalities, institutions, cultural symbols, and everyday interactions.

Author : Sue Anstiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800181649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game On written by Sue Anstiss and published by . This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan K. Cahn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674144347
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming on Strong written by Susan K. Cahn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical records and contemporary interviews, Cahn chronicles the remarkable transformation made by women's sports in the the 20th century, revealing the struggles faced by women to overcome social constraints and behavior codes, and how sport has changes their lives. Photos.

Author : Carol A. Osborne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000737586
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Sports History written by Carol A. Osborne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the developments in women’s sports history in Britain in the last 10 years, following on from its successful predecessor Women and Sport History (2010). It considers what has changed and what continuities persist drawing on a series of contributions from authors who are active in the field. The chapters included in this book cover a broad time frame and range of topics such as the history of women’s football in Scotland and England; women’s role in rugby leagues; women’s sport during World War II; and female participation in American football, cricket and cycling. Written and edited during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book also reflects on the possible implications of the pandemic on women’s sport. In doing so, it highlights the diversity of research currently being undertaken in the field and touches on areas which remain overlooked or underdeveloped. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in History.

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231069571
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Sports written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject is rife with social and cultural implications which Guttmann explores as he traces the development of women's sports from antiquity to the present, including the evolution and the revolution in the 20th century and contemporary controversies.

Author : Frankie de la Cretaz
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1645036618
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hail Mary written by Frankie de la Cretaz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking story of the National Women’s Football League, and the players whose spirit, rivalries, and tenacity changed the legacy of women’s sports forever. In 1967, a Cleveland promoter recruited a group of women to compete as a traveling football troupe. It was conceived as a gimmick—in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters—but the women who signed up really wanted to play. And they were determined to win. Hail Mary chronicles the highs and lows of the National Women’s Football League, which took root in nineteen cities across the US over the course of two decades. Drawing on new interviews with former players from the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more, Hail Mary brings us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was formed, championed, and eventually shuttered. In an era of vibrant second wave feminism and Title IX activism, the athletes of the National Women’s Football League were boisterous pioneers on and off the field: you’ll be rooting for them from start to finish.

Author : Susan Birrell
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873226509
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Sport, and Culture written by Susan Birrell and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive collection of articles available on women, sport, and culture. The book features 24 selections from various feminist positions that examine the relation between sport and gender.The articles in >Women, Sport, and Culture> serve as a marker of where feminist sport studies has been as a field and a guidepost for what may be the most promising theoretical directions in the future.Part Iintroduces and provides an overview of feminist theories that have examined gender, women, and sport. The articles in the section discuss the complexity of the relations among sport, gender, ideology, bodies, and technology.Part IIaddresses the gendered organizational order of sport and explores the practices through which women in institutionalized sport are managed. The articles inPart IIIrespond to Kenneth Sheard and Eric Dunning`s idea that sport is a male preserve-a site for the production and reproduction of gendered power relations. The section explores how certain practices associated with sport actively degrade women and how women have alternately appropriated and opposed what they perceive to be oppressive and unjust practices.Part IVexamines the role of the media in circulating and legitimizing dominant meanings of sport, women, gendered bodies, and sexuality.Part Vlooks at heterosexism and homophobia in sport.

Author : Jaime Schultz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190657703
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Sports written by Jaime Schultz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news networks devote less than5 percent of their programming to women's sports. Excluding Sports Illustrated's annual "Swimsuit Issue," women appear on just 4.9 percent of the magazine's covers.Media is a powerful indication of the culture surrounding sport in the United States. Why are women underrepresented in sports media? Sports Illustrated journalist Andy Benoit infamously remarked that women's sports "are not worth watching." Although he later apologized, Benoit's comment points tomore general lack of awareness. Consider, for example, the confusion surrounding Title IX, the U.S. Law that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal financial assistance. Is Title IX to blame when administrators drop men's athletic programs? Is it lack ofinterest or lack of opportunity that causes girls and women to participate in sport at lower rates than boys and men? In Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG, Jaime Schultz tackles these questions, along with many others, to upend the misunderstandings that plague women's sports.Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women's involvement in sport. In the signature question-and-answer format of the What Everyone Needs to KnowRG series, this short and accessible book clarifies misconceptions that dog women'sathletics and offers much needed context and history to illuminate the struggles and inequalities sportswomen continue to face. By exploring issues such as gender, sexuality, sex segregation, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media coverage, and the sport-health connection, Schultz shows why women'ssports are not just worth watching, but worth playing, supporting, and fighting for.