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- Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader
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- 2012
- Published by: Northeastern University Press
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A spectacular transformation in women's sports has occurred over the past century in colleges, high schools, and recreational leagues across the nation. Gradual changes during the late 1950s and 1960s within the fields of women's physical education and amateur sport provided the initial energy for this transformation. But it took the rebirth of a grassroots feminist movement in the late 1960s and 1970s to catalyze the radical changes in women's athletic opportunities and attitudes toward female athletes. The assimilation of feminist principles into the broader popular culture solidified the belief that sport plays a positive role in the lives of girls and women. Political activists for women's rights codified this attitude with the passage of Title IX of the 1972 Federal Education Amendments, a law banning gender discrimination in educational settings, thus guaranteeing women's legal right to an equitable share of athletic opportunities and resources.
Though the sea change in American women's sports is evident in schools, the media, and local playing fields, scholars are still in the early stages of fully examining the causes and impacts of this historic change. Women and Sports in the United States brings together scholarly articles, journalism, political and legal documents, and first-person accounts that collectively explore women's sports in America, with emphasis on the post-Title IX era.
This book was published with the generous support of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.
Though the sea change in American women's sports is evident in schools, the media, and local playing fields, scholars are still in the early stages of fully examining the causes and impacts of this historic change. Women and Sports in the United States brings together scholarly articles, journalism, political and legal documents, and first-person accounts that collectively explore women's sports in America, with emphasis on the post-Title IX era.
This book was published with the generous support of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. iii-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxii
- Timeline: 125 Years of U.S. Women in Sports
- pp. xxiii-xxx
- HOW I LEARNED TO RIDE THE BICYCLE
- pp. 15-17
- PART II: Negotiating Masculinity and Femininity:The Female Athlete as Oxymoron
- THROWING LIKE A GIRL
- pp. 75-81
- CHROMOSOME COUNT
- pp. 103-110
- CLOSING THE MUSCLE GAP
- pp. 110-114
- UNDERSTANDING THE FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD
- pp. 114-124
- WOMEN AND ACL INJURIES
- pp. 125-128
- CATASTROPHIC INJURIES IN FEMALE ATHLETES
- pp. 129-130
- ANABOLIC STEROIDS
- pp. 138-141
- EATING DISORDERS AND GYMNASTICS
- pp. 142-148
- THE SILENCE OF GREAT DISTANCE
- pp. 148-152
- COMING HOME
- pp. 152-158
- STRONGER WOMEN
- pp. 159-164
- PART IV: Building Inequality into Sport:Institutionalized Bias
- STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS FACING WOMEN IN SPORT
- pp. 167-176
- HALF-COURT BASKETBALL
- pp. 177-183
- “I CAN SEE THE FINISH LINE”
- pp. 184-185
- COURTING DESTINY
- pp. 186-192
- THE COLD WARS
- pp. 192-198
- ROOTING FOR MICHELLE
- pp. 198-200
- BREAKING CULTURAL TRADITIONS
- pp. 201-205
- ON THE REZ
- pp. 205-230
- PART V: Sexuality and Sport
- CHANGING THE GAME
- pp. 217-234
- SEX, LIES, AND VOLLEYBALL
- pp. 246-257
- IN THE BUFF
- pp. 258-260
- NEW IMAGE EXPOSED
- pp. 260-262
- SEPARATING THE MEN FROM THE GIRLS
- pp. 265-281
- THE WOMEN’S SPORTS FILM AS THE NEW MELODRAMA
- pp. 283-298
- IT’S TIME TO TELL THE BLOODY TRUTH
- pp. 298-301
- BLOODSPORT
- pp. 302-308
- OFFENSIVE INTERFERENCE
- pp. 308-318
- TITLE IX, EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972
- pp. 321-327
- TITLE IX MEDIA HELPER
- pp. 327-335
- TITLE IX AT 30
- pp. 337-346
- A TRAIN WRECK CALLED TITLE TITLE IX
- pp. 346-348
- IN THE SPIRIT OF TITLE IX
- pp. 348-353
- TITLE IX—THE GOOD NEWS, THE BAD NEWS
- pp. 353-356
Additional Information
ISBN
9781555537876
Related ISBN(s)
9781555536718
MARC Record
OCLC
794003770
Pages
406
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No