Screen LibraryWomen's sports : what everyone needs to know /
"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 ath...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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What everyone needs to know
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| Summary: |
"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. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 243 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190657703 0190657707 9780190657710 0190657715 |
| Index Number: | GV709 |
| CLC: | G804.27 |
| Call Number: | G804.27/S387 |
| 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. |