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Futbolera : a history of women and sports in Latin America
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Qualifying Times
This perceptive, lively study explores U.S. women's sport through historical \"points of change\": particular products or trends that dramatically influenced both women's participation in sport and cultural responses to women athletes. Beginning with the seemingly innocent ponytail, the subject of the Introduction, scholar Jaime Schultz challenges the reader to look at the historical and sociological significance of now-common items such as sports bras and tampons and ideas such as sex testing and competitive cheerleading. Tennis wear, tampons, and sports bras all facilitated women's participation in physical culture, while physical educators, the aesthetic fitness movement, and Title IX encouraged women to challenge (or confront) policy, financial, and cultural obstacles. While some of these points of change increased women's physical freedom and sporting participation, they also posed challenges. Tampons encouraged menstrual shame, sex testing (a tool never used with male athletes) perpetuated narrowly defined cultural norms of femininity, and the late-twentieth-century aesthetic fitness movement fed into an unrealistic beauty ideal. Ultimately, Schultz finds that U.S. women's sport has progressed significantly but ambivalently. Although participation in sports is no longer uncommon for girls and women, Schultz argues that these \"points of change\" have contributed to a complex matrix of gender differentiation that marks the female athletic body as different than--as less than--the male body, despite the advantages it may confer.
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Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
\"Highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes, from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball in a men's professional league\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beyond the Black Power Salute
Unequal opportunity sparked Jim Brown’s endeavors to encourage Black development while Billie Jean King fought so that women tennis players could earn more money and enjoy greater freedom. Gregory J. Kaliss examines these events and others to guide readers through the unprecedented wave of protest that swept sports in the 1960s and 1970s. The little-known story of the University of Wyoming football players suspended for their activism highlights an analysis of protests by college athletes. The 1971 Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier clash provides a high-profile example of the Black male athlete’s effort to redefine Black masculinity. An in-depth look at the American Basketball Association reveals a league that put Black culture front and center with its style of play and shows how the ABA influenced the development of hip-hop. As Kaliss describes the breakthroughs achieved by these athletes, he also explores the barriers that remained--and in some cases remain today.
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Getting in the Game
Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. It is an iconic law, the subject of web blogs and T-shirt slogans, and is widely credited with opening the doors to the massive numbers of girls and women now participating in competitive sports. Yet few people fully understand the law's requirements, or the extent to which it has succeeded in challenging the gender norms that have circumscribed women's opportunities as athletes and their place in society more generally.In this first legal analysis of Title IX, Deborah L. Brake assesses the statute's successes and failures. While the statute has created tremendous gains for female athletes, not only raising the visibility and cultural acceptance of women in sports, but also creating social bonds for women, positive body images, and leadership roles, the disparities in funding between men's and women's sports have remained remarkably resilient. At the same time, female athletes continue to receive less prestige and support than their male counterparts, which in turn filters into the arena of professional sports. Brake provides a richer understanding and appreciation of what Title IX has accomplished, while taking a critical look at the places where the law has fallen short. A unique contribution to the literature on Title IX, Getting in the Game fully explores the theory, policy choices, successes, and limitations of this historic law.
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Female olympians : a mediated socio-cultural and political-economic timeline
This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women's bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians' successes.
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Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee's Trailblazers
In June 1972, President Richard Nixon put pen to paper and
signed the Educational Amendments of 1972 into law. The nearly
150-page document makes no mention of “gender,”
“athletics,” “girls,” or
“women.” The closest reference to “sport”
is transportation. In fact, the bill did not appear to contain
anything earth shattering. But tucked into its final pages, a
heading appears, “Title IX—Prohibition of Sex
Discrimination.” These 37 words would change the world for
girls and women across the United States. On its face, Title IX
legally guaranteed equal opportunity in education. In time, Title
IX would serve as the tipping point for the modern era of
women’s sport. Slowly but surely, women’s athletics
at the high school and collegiate levels grew to prominence, and
Tennessee fast emerged as a national leader. In
Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s
Trailblazers, Mary Ellen Pethel introduces readers to past
and present pioneers—each instrumental to the success of
women’s athletics across the state and nation. Through
vibrant profiles, Pethel celebrates the lives and careers of
household names like Pat Summitt and Candace Parker, as well as
equally important forerunners such as Ann Furrow and Teresa
Phillips. Through their lived experiences, these fifty
individuals laid the foundation for athletic excellence in
Tennessee, which in turn shaped the national landscape for
women’s sports. The book also provides readers with a
fuller understanding of Title IX, as well as a concise history of
women’s athletics in the pre- and post-Title IX eras. With
interviewees ranging from age 20 to 93, Pethel artfully combines
storytelling with scholarship. Guided by the voices of the
athletes, coaches, and administrators, Pethel vividly documents
achievement and adversity, wins and losses, and advice for the
next generation. This book represents the first statewide
compilation of its kind—offering readers a behind-the-
scenes perspective of Tennessee women who dedicated their lives
to the advancement of sport and gender equality. Readers will
delight in
Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers: 50
Years, 50 Stories.
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