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

• Autore: McDonagh Eileen L
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4830973
• Soggetto topico: Sports - Social aspects - United States; Sex discrimination in sports - United States; Sex discrimination against women - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PappanoLaura <1962->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Playing with the boys
• ISBN: 0-19-538677-9; 1-283-09810-5; 9786613098108; 0-19-977492-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465325103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II