Women's Sports
What Everyone Needs to Know
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 243 pages ; 21 cm.
"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 Know series, this ... book clarifies misconceptions that dog women's athletics and offers ... context and history to illuminate the struggles and inequalities sportswomen continue to face"--Publisher marketing.
Series: What everyone needs to know.
Contents:
Why women's sport matters -- A brief history of women's sport -- The Influence of Title IX -- Gender and sport -- Sexualities and sport -- Sex segregation -- The Olympic and Paralympic Games -- Women, sport, and the media -- Professional opportunities -- The sport-health connection -- Moving on.
Subjects:
Sports for women.
Sports -- Sex differences.
Sex discrimination in sports.
Women athletes -- Health and hygiene.
Sports for women.
Sports -- Sex differences.
Sex discrimination in sports.
Women athletes -- Health and hygiene.
ISBN:
9780190657703
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Gender Women Sch | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-237) and index.