Playing With the Boys - Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports

Zusatztext "This is a wonderful work! It offers novel evidence from biology, history, and the law that makes us realize that women's sports are not only intrinsically interesting as a topic of study, but also a key part of larger debates about who we are as a society and a nation."--Kristin Goss, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science, Duke University and author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America Informationen zum 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.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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Eileen McDonagh, Eileen (Professor of Political Science McDonagh, Eileen/ Pappano Mcdonagh, McDonagh Eileen, Laura Pappano, Laura (Writer-in-Residence Pappano, Pappano Laura
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2007
• EAN: 9780195167566
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516756-6
• No. of pages: 349
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Civics and citizenship