Women, Sport and Physical Activity: Challenges and Triumphs
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 378
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 378
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"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is about a woman who loves baseball.
It's true. The song we've all heard at the ballpark is really only the chorus of a 1908 song that begins,
"Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad."
But in 1908 women wouldn't have dared play baseball. Today's girls and young women have no idea that most of their mothers weren't allowed to play little league, didn't get to participate in NCAA sponsored championships, and had only two real options for professional sports careers: tennis and golf.
Women, Sport & Physical Activity: Challenges & Triumphs recounts the history, struggle, and triumphs of women in sport. Students learn about women in sport from four distinct perspectives: historical, sociological, psychological and biomedical. This approach offers students the most comprehensive view of how the struggle of women in sport has forced open doors for women in so many other areas.
The broad range of topics in Women, Sport & Physical Activity: Challenges & Triumphs includes: the history of "appropriate athletics for women," the passage and effects of Title IX, the economics of "big time" sports, self-esteem and women's sports, the impact of sports on women's health, among many others.
Appropriate for courses in women¿s studies, kinesiology, sport psychology, Women, Sport & Physical Activity: Challenges & Triumphs features:
- Activity sheets in every chapter for practical application of theories
- Discussion questions after each article stimulate classroom discussion and critical thinking.
- Current articles ensure students have the newest material.
- Correlated readings and a complete bibliography offer opportunity for further research and assignments.
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1: Historical Perspectives on Women in Sport and Physical Activity
Introduction
1. Feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pursuit of Health and Physical Fitness as a Strategy for Emancipation -- Patricia Vertinsky
2. 'Look Out for the Ladies': The Definition and Control of Appropriate Athletics for Women in the United States -- Alison M. Wrynn
3. "We Were Ladies, We Just Played Basketball Like Boys": African American Womanhood and Competitve Basketball at Bennett College, 1928-1942 -- Rita Liberti
4. A Sense of Community: Japanese-American Girl's and Women's Softball in Los Angeles, 1930-1950 -- Alison M. Wrynn
5. Title IX Compliance: Looking Past the Proportionality Prong -- Elisa Hatlevig
Activity Worksheets 1-4
Section 2: Sociological Perspectives on Women in Sport and Physical Activity
Introduction
1 The Social Construction of Gender -- Judith Lorber
2 Just do . . . what? Sport, Bodies, Gender -- Shari L. Dworkin and Michael A. Messner
3 Disability and Sport: A Sociological Analysis -- Sharon R. Guthrie and Shirley Castelnuovo
4 Success and Gender: Determining the Rate of Advancement for Intercollegiate
Athletic Directors -- Warren A. Whisenant, Paul M. Pederson, and Bill L. Obenour
5 Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies -- Lisa Maire Hogeland
Activity Worksheets 5-10
Section 3: Psychological Perspectives on Women in Sport and Physical Activity
Introduction
1. Challenge and Conformity on 'Contested Terrain': Images of Women in Four Women's Sport/ Fitness Magazines -- Marie Hardin, Susan Lynn, and Kristie Walsdorf
2. The Exercise and Self-Esteem Model in Adult Women: The Inclusion of Physical Acceptance -- Susan S. Levy and Vicki Ebbeck
3. Living the Paradox: Female Athletes Negotiate Feminity and Muscularity --
Vikki Krane, Precilla Y.L. Choi, Shannon M. Baird, Christine M. Aimar, and Kerrie J. Kauer
Activity Worksheets 11-13
Section 4--Biomedical Perspectives on Women in Sport and Physical Activity
Introduction
1. Physical Activity and Women's Health
What's New in Treating Active Women -- Lisa Schnirring
How Exercise Affects Lipid Profiles in Women -- Elizabeth A. Dowling
Physical Activity and Incidence of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Women - Joann E. Manson; Rimm, et al.
2. Physical Activity and Hormone Status in Women Effects of the Menstrual Cycle on
Exercise Performance -- Xanne A. K. Janse de Jorge
3. Pregnancy and Exercise
Exercise During Pregnancy - Raul Artal and Nicholas A. DiNubile
4. Too Much of a Good Thing: The Female Athlete Triad
Female Athlete Triad: Eating Disorders, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporsis -- Katherine A. Beals, Rebecca A. Brey and Julianna B. Gonyou
5. Athletic Injuries in Women
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes: Why Are Women More Susceptible? -- James L. Moeller and Mary M. Lamb