Playing with the boys : why separate is not equal in sports / Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano.

By:

McDonagh, Eileen L

Contributor(s):

Pappano, Laura, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199774920
0199774927
1283098105
9781283098106
9786613098108
6613098108
0199840598
9780199840595

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Playing with the boys.DDC classification:

306.4830973 22

LOC classification:

GV706.5 .M3673 2008eb

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Contents:

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What's the problem -- 2. The sex difference question -- 3. Title IX : old norms in new forms -- 4. Sex-segregated sports on trial -- 5. Inventing barriers -- 6. Breaking barriers -- 7. Pass the ball -- Notes -- Index.

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Review: "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 powerful examples from the world of contemporary American athletics - girls and women trying to break through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball to name just a few - the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant women's coercive exclusion from competing with men; that some sex-group difference actually confer a sports advantage to women; and that "special rules" for women in sports do not simply reflect the "differences" between the sexes, but actively create and reinforce a view that women as a group are inherently inferior to men - even when women clearly are not. For instance, women's bodies give them a physiological advantage in endurance sports like the ultra-marathon and distance swimming. So, why do many Olympic events - from swimming to skiing to running to bike racing - have shorter races for women than men? Likewise, why are women's tennis matches limited to three sets while men's are best-of-fives? This book shows how sex-segregated sports policies, instead of reflecting sex-group differences, in fact construct them."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-334) and index.

"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 powerful examples from the world of contemporary American athletics - girls and women trying to break through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball to name just a few - the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant women's coercive exclusion from competing with men; that some sex-group difference actually confer a sports advantage to women; and that "special rules" for women in sports do not simply reflect the "differences" between the sexes, but actively create and reinforce a view that women as a group are inherently inferior to men - even when women clearly are not. For instance, women's bodies give them a physiological advantage in endurance sports like the ultra-marathon and distance swimming. So, why do many Olympic events - from swimming to skiing to running to bike racing - have shorter races for women than men? Likewise, why are women's tennis matches limited to three sets while men's are best-of-fives? This book shows how sex-segregated sports policies, instead of reflecting sex-group differences, in fact construct them."--Jacket

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