Playing with the Boys : Why Separate Is Not Equal In Sports.

By: McDonagh, EileenContributor(s): Pappano, LauraMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199774920Subject(s): Sex discrimination against women -- United States | Sex discrimination in sports -- United States | Sports -- Social aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Playing with the Boys : Why Separate Is Not Equal In SportsDDC classification: 306.483 LOC classification: GV706.5 -- .M3673 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One: What's the Problem? -- Two: The Sex Difference Question -- Three: Title IX: Old Norms in New Forms -- Four: Sex-Segregated Sports on Trial -- Five: Inventing Barriers -- A Photo Gallery -- Six: Breaking Barriers -- Seven: Pass the Ball -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One: What's the Problem? -- Two: The Sex Difference Question -- Three: Title IX: Old Norms in New Forms -- Four: Sex-Segregated Sports on Trial -- Five: Inventing Barriers -- A Photo Gallery -- Six: Breaking Barriers -- Seven: Pass the Ball -- Notes -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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