Eileen McDonagh

Playing With the Boys

Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports

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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 sufficient to warrant exclusion in most sports, that success ent… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Pappano, Laura

ISBN: 978-0-19-977492-0
EAN: 9780199774920
Produktnummer: 13900435
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 14'427 KB
Abbildungen: 19 b/w halftones

Über den Autor

Eileen McDonagh is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. She is the author of Breaking the Abortion Deadlock and The Motherless State. Laura Pappano is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and The Washington Post. She is the author of The Connection Gap and is currently a writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.