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Playing with the boys : why separate is not equal in sports /

By: McDonagh, Eileen L.
Contributor(s): Pappano, Laura, 1962-.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009, c2008Description: xv, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195386776 (pbk.); 9780195386776:; 0195386779 (pbk.).Subject(s): Sports -- Social aspects -- United States | Sex discrimination in sports -- United States | Sex discrimination against women -- United StatesDDC classification: 306.483
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What's the problem -- The sex difference question -- Title IX : old norms in new forms -- Sex-segregated sports on trial -- Inventing barriers -- Breaking barriers -- Pass the ball -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by 'success.' By keeping women from 'playing with the boys' on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with men. Using dozens of powerful examples - girls and women breaking through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball, to name just a few - the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant exclusion in most sports, that success entails more than brute strength, and that sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect sex differences, but actively constructs and reinforces stereotypes about sex differences.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 306.483 MCD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0078909
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Reprint. Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What's the problem -- The sex difference question -- Title IX : old norms in new forms -- Sex-segregated sports on trial -- Inventing barriers -- Breaking barriers -- Pass the ball -- Notes -- Index.

Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by 'success.' By keeping women from 'playing with the boys' on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with men. Using dozens of powerful examples - girls and women breaking through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball, to name just a few - the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant exclusion in most sports, that success entails more than brute strength, and that sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect sex differences, but actively constructs and reinforces stereotypes about sex differences.

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