1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823697703321

Autore

McDonagh Eileen L

Titolo

Playing with the boys [[electronic resource] ] : why separate is not equal in sports / / Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-773381-6

0-19-984059-8

0-19-538677-9

1-283-09810-5

9786613098108

0-19-977492-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PappanoLaura <1962->

Disciplina

306.4830973

Soggetti

Sports - Social aspects - United States

Sex discrimination in sports - United States

Sex discrimination against women - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910711763703321

Autore

Jackson Daniel Dana

Titolo

The normal distribution of chlorine in the natural waters of New York and New England / / by Daniel D. Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, , 1905

Washington, D.C. : , : Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 pages, 5 pages of plates)

Collana

Series L, Quality of water ; ; 10

Water-supply and irrigation paper ; ; no. 144

Soggetti

Chlorine - New York (State)

Chlorine - New England

Water - Composition - New York (State)

Water - Composition - New England

Chlorine

Water - Composition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.