Women in sports : breaking barriers, facing obstacles / Adrienne N. Milner and Jomills Henry Braddock II, editors.

Other author Milner, Adrienne N., editor.
Other author Braddock, Jomills H., editor.
Format Book
PublicationSanta Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
Copyright Date©2017
Description2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Sports for women--History.
Sports for women--Social aspects.
Sports--Sex differences.
Sexism.
Women athletes--Social conditions.

Contents Volume 1. Sportswomen and Teams: 1. Action, impact, and beauty : the lingerie football league and the pornography of sport / Andrew J. Young ; 2. "Dude, those are girls" : boundary maintenance in women's full-contact tackle football / J.A. Carter ; 3. Sandrine Rangeon : denied "alien" visa despite out-of-this-world abilities / Roxane Coche ; 4. More than one : what happened when multiple black female athletes excelled in predominantly white sports at the Rio Olympics / Rachel Laws Myers ; 5. How to become a dominant Black female athlete and get paid : the case of Serena Williams and gains and costs of athleticism and intersectionality / Scott Norman Brooks ; 6. "It was a historic game that no one saw" : evaluating the cultural citizenship and moral legitimacy of women's professional hockey through the inaugural Women's Winter Classic Outdoor Ice Hockey Game / Cheryl MacDonald, Courtney Szto, and Jonathon Robert James Edwards ; 7. UConn women's basketball : dynasty and dominance versus gender inequality in sports media coverage? / Kenneth Nathaniel Robinson ; 8. Turf wars : safety, sexism, and the 2015 Women's World Cup / Meredith Marie Schertzinger ; 9. Invisible Pelotons : women's cycling and the boundaries of professionalism / Diana Tracy Cohen ; 10. Athlete domestic violence : contaminating acts and the violation of self-boundaries / Helen Owton and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson ; 11. The hierarchy within women's sports : NARPs, no-bow Lesbos, and horizontal violence / Angie Henderson, Christine Nancy Ingoldsby, and Mark Shuey ; 12. Team USA : gender diversity and team success at the 2012 London Olympic Games / Christina Sanchez-Volatier [and four others] -- Volume 2. Social Trends: 1. What shall I play? Individual, interpersonal, and contextual correlates of girls' interscholastic sport participation / Ashley Beth Mikulyuk, Jomills Henry Braddock II, and Adrienne N. Milner ; 2. "A chocolate chip in a sea of milk" : Black women reflect on the challenges of embodying the runner identity / Alicia Smith-Tran ; 3. Working in a male-dominated sport profession : female football official / Heidi Norstrom ; 4. Hyperfemininity and sexlessness : women's strategies for inclusion in surfing / Vanessa M. Kauffman ; 5. Modern female fighters : barriers women face in boxing / Anne Tjønndal ; 6. Fat and strong to thin and frail : hyper-regulating the female athletic body / Brittany Harder and Felecia Theune ; 7. Strength in numbers : an explorative study into the experiences of female strength and conditioning coaches in the UK / Nicola Medlin-Silver, Peter Lampard, and Tanya Lynsey Bunsell ; 8. Identity development and postgraduate aspirations of female college student-athletes / Kristina M. Navarro, Michael J. Salm, and Jennifer Mary Scherer ; 9. Segregated bodies : gender reproduction within college sports / Kirsten Michelle Hextrum ; 10. Out of our league : femininity and athletic excellence in the French media's coverage of women's soccer and basketball games / Yann Descamps ; 11. Playing sports, wearing headscarves : marginalizing versus mainstreaming religious garments as social contracts / Olesya Venger ; 12. The glass door : early-career women in collegiate athletics / Robin Hardin, Elizabeth Taylor, Jessica Siegele, and Allison Smith.
Abstract "This two volume collection addresses women's sport involvement in contemporary society with a focus on issues of equity that women currently face. Through empirical and conceptual analyses of women's current experiences in a diverse array of sports roles-- from recreational through professional levels as athletes, coaches, referees, and administrators-- this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the "the state of women in sports." The volumes' overarching framework is sociological and examines the state of women in sports by questioning dominant ideology surrounding biological notions of athletic inferiority and interrogates social constructs which affect women's experiences in sports, such as race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, and physical size. However, the contributions in this collection are also multidisciplinary and include research grounded in sociology, psychology, communications, gender studies, education, cultural studies, anthropology, and history, to explore the diversity, challenges, and achievements of women in sport. The volume's broad international scope also contextualizes women's experiences in sports within culturally diverse patriarchal societies." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Women in Sports Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017 9781440851254
Genre/formHistory.
Other titleSportswomen and teams.
Other titleSocial trends.
LCCN 2016058150
ISBN9781440851247 set alkaline paper
ISBN1440851247 set alkaline paper
ISBN9781440851261 volume 1
ISBN1440851263 volume 1
ISBN9781440851278 volume 2
ISBN1440851271 volume 2
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book
Standard identifier# 40027410195
Standard identifier# 99973810177

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