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Cargando... Playing With the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sportspor Eileen McDonagh
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a wonderful representation of the history of women and sports, the complexities of Title IX, and disparities between men's and women's sports. McDonagh's insights into the separation in thought between men's and women's athletics are resonant and well-researched to provide the most information possible regarding such a subject. ( ) A Castilleja faculty member says this is "a great sports sociology book." Want to learn more about Title IX? The differences between the boys'and the girls' versions of soccer and other sports? The ways boys' and girls' sports are inequal (think recognition, funding, and on and on)? Then take a seat and pick up McDonagh's book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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