Playing with the boys : why separate is not equal in sports / Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonagh, Eileen L., author.

Pappano, Laura, 1962- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Social aspects--United States.

Sports.

Sex discrimination in sports--United States.

Sex discrimination in sports.

Sex discrimination against women--United States.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

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 suffic

Contents:

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:

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-334) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773381-6

0-19-984059-8

0-19-538677-9

1-283-09810-5

9786613098108

0-19-977492-7

OCLC:

713022962