Playing With Boys

Author : Eileen McDonagh,Associate Professor of Political Science Eileen McDonagh,Laura Pappano,Writer-In-Residence Laura Pappano
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195167566

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Playing With the Boys by Eileen McDonagh,Associate Professor of Political Science Eileen McDonagh,Laura Pappano,Writer-In-Residence Laura Pappano Pdf

From small-town life to the national stage, from the boardroom to Capitol Hill, athletic contests help define what we mean in America by success. And by keeping women from playing with the boys on the grounds that they are inherently inferior to men, society relegates them to second-classstatus in American life. 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 colorful examples from the world of contemporary American athletics--girls and women tryingto break through in high school 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 usually entails more than brute strength, and that the special rules for women in many sportsdo not simply reflect the "differences" between the sexes, but actively create and reinforce them. For instance, if women's bodies give them a physiological advantage in endurance sports like the ultra-marathon and distance swimming, why do so many Olympic events--from swimming to skiing to runningto bike racing--have shorter races for women than men? Likewise, why are women's singles games in badminton limited to 11 points while men's singles go to 15? Surely female badminton players can endure four more points. Such rules merely reinforce a "difference" for social--not competitive--purposes. An original and provocative argument to level the athletic playing field, Playing with the Boys issues a clarion call for sex-sensible policies in sports as another important step toward the equality of men and women in our society.

Author : Liz Tigelaar,Nicole Leigh Shepherd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1595141138

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Playing with the Boys by Liz Tigelaar,Nicole Leigh Shepherd Pdf

When fifteen-year-old Lucy and her father move to Malibu, California, for a fresh start, Lucy tries out for the varsity football team and feels strong and in control for the first time since her mother's death--as long as her overprotective father does not find out.

Author : Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312332351

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Playing with Boys by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Pdf

Three Latin-American women in their late twenties, including an actress, a suburban mother, and a music manager, take Los Angeles by storm in their shared quest to find healthy relationships and success in a cutthroat city.

Author : Carrie S. Allen
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781525312540

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Michigan vs. the Boys by Carrie S. Allen Pdf

Hockey meets the #MeToo movement in this powerful debut novel. Michigan Manning lives for hockey, and this is her year to shine. That is, until she gets some crushing news: budget cuts will keep the girls’ hockey team off the ice this year. If she wants colleges to notice her, Michigan has to find a way to play. Luckily, there’s still one team left in town … The boys’ team isn't exactly welcoming, but Michigan’s prepared to prove herself. She plays some of the best hockey of her life, in fact, all while putting up with changing in the broom closet, constant trash talk and “harmless” pranks that always seem to target her. But once hazing crosses the line into assault, Michigan must weigh the consequences of speaking up — even if it means putting her future on the line.

Author : Kathleen Bachynski
Publisher : Studies in Social Medicine
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1469653702

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No Game for Boys to Play by Kathleen Bachynski Pdf

"In 2016, the NFL admitted a link between degenerative brain disease and injuries resulting from tackle football. This admission sparked a new safety debate in professional football. However, the concerns about players' health do not start at the professional level, but at the beginning and intermediate levels of play. In this book, Kathleen Bachynksi tells the story of youth tackle football and the debates over player safety in the United States. In the postwar United States, high school football was celebrated as a "moral" sport for young boys, one that promised the creation of the honorable male citizen. However, Bachynski shows that throughout the twentieth century, coaches, sports equipment manufacturers, and even doctors were more concerned with "saving the game" than young boys' safety. By connecting the study of sport, health, childhood, and masculinity, Bachynski shows the social and physical vulnerability of young football players and how commonly held ideas of masculinity shape sport"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781534524217

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Author : Barrie Thorne
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813519233

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Gender Play by Barrie Thorne Pdf

You see it in every schoolyard: the girls play only with the girls, the boys play only with the boys. Why? And what do the kids think about this? Breaking with familiar conventions for thinking about children and gender, Gender Play develops fresh insights into the everyday social worlds of kids in elementary schools in the United States. Barrie Thorne draws on her daily observations in the classroom and on the playground to show how children construct and experience gender in school. With rich detail, she looks at the "play of gender" in the organization of groups of kids and activities - activities such as "chase-and-kiss," "cooties," "goin' with" and teasing. Thorne observes children in schools in working-class communities, emphasizing the experiences of fourth and fifth graders. Most of the children she observed were white, but a sizable minority were Latino, Chicano, or African American. Thorne argues that the organization and meaning of gender are influenced by age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and social class, and that they shift with social context. She sees gender identity not through the lens of individual socialization or difference, but rather as a social process involving groups of children. Thorne takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery, provides new insights about children, and offers teachers practical suggestions for increasing cooperative mixed-gender interaction.

Author : Tabatha Vargo
Publisher : Wicked Books, LLC
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482768954

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Playing Patience by Tabatha Vargo Pdf

Life’s been hard for Zeke. Being a punching bag for his alcoholic father has turned him into stone. Not even the dodgy trailer park he lives in can scare him. Fighting is his release and sex, drugs, and his guitar bring him peace, but deep down Zeke isn’t quite as hard as he makes himself out to be. When he meets Patience, she finds all his broken pieces and puts him back together, but she’s a ray of light in his shadowed life and the last thing he wants to do is bring her into his dark world. Playing careless is easy, playing the bad guy can be fun, but playing Patience is impossible, especially when she can see right through him. Zeke isn’t the only one who’s broken, and for the first time, in a long time, Patience feels alive. Her black and white world gets a shot of color when she meets Zeke. He’s unlike anyone she’s ever met with his tattoos, piercings, and blunt honesty. She wants nothing more than to let go and ride the wild side with him, but some wounds never heal and the broken pieces of Patience aren’t so easy to find.

Author : Betsy Ross
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1578604613

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Playing Ball with the Boys by Betsy Ross Pdf

The use of female sideline reporters is the fastest-growing new aspect of televised broadcasts of professional and college football. Names like Suzy Kolber, Erin Andrews, and Andrea Kremer are now as well known as any of the men in the booth. In recent years women have been sports columnists and reporters, talk-show hosts, even coaches and team administrators. And yet there has never been a book about this phenomenon. Former ESPN news anchor Betsy Ross fills this void with Playing Ball with the Boys, a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the emerging role that women play in sports broadcasting and reporting as well as in the business of sports. Ross interviews a number of the biggest names--from Kolber and Kremer to USA Today columnist Christine Brennan and Lesley Visser and many others--who offer first-hand accounts of the struggles and the triumphs of women playing what has always been a man's game. She provides a history of this unique facet of the sports world, from pioneering female newspaper sports reporters to the celebrated breakthrough into televised sports by former Miss America Phyllis George, who is interviewed in the book. Ross covers the controversial moments, from locker room confrontations between players and female reporters to the infamous sideline interview in which Joe Namath attempted to kiss Suzy Kolber during a live broadcast. Readers also learn of women who played pro sports on male teams or coached men's teams. They meet a woman who runs a professional baseball team and another who is a team doctor. Through this tale, Ross weaves her own story, recalling how she went from a small town in Indiana to the anchor's chair at the largest sports network in the world, ESPN. She explains what it's like for a woman to succeed in the male-dominated world of sports broadcasting.

Author : Mart Crowley
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640041

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The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley Pdf

"Full length, drama / 9 m / interior"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Tracey Campbell Pearson
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823455928

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Girls and Boys Come Out to Play by Tracey Campbell Pearson Pdf

Mother Goose herself invites kids to come out to play with all their favorite nursery rhyme characters in this popular Mother Goose rhyme. Girls and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day. Parents looking for bedtime stories with a fresh twist on a familiar nursery rhyme need look no further. Using the popular Girls and Boys Come Out to Play Mother Goose poem as a backdrop, illustrator Tracey Campbell Pearson spins an exciting visual narrative in which Mother Goose invites children on a city block to come out and play, taking them on a moonlit adventure in verse. Young readers will love pouring over Tracey's richly detailed artwork full of diverse kids, animals, and beloved nursery rhyme characters, including Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and Old King Cole. After the fun is over, Mother Goose leads everyone home to sleep snug in their beds.

Author : Dennis Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350200708

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Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly Pdf

"A piece that takes us on an extraordinary journey ... The energy and the vividness of the writing never lets up." The Independent An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family. But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn. A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma, Denis Kelly's stirring monologue play premiered at The Royal Court Theatre in 2018 starring Carey Mulligan. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features a new introduction by David Pattie.

Author : Betsy M. Ross
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781458721235

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Playing Ball with the Boys by Betsy M. Ross Pdf

Female sideline reporters are the fastest-growing trend in broadcasts of professional and college football; names like Suzy Kolber, Erin Andrews, and Andrea Kremer are now as well known as any of the men in the booth. But even more has been going on. In recent years women have garnered spots as sports columnists and reporters, talk-show hosts, and even coaches and team administrators. Yet there has never been a book about this phenomenon. Former ESPN news anchor Betsy Ross fills this gap with Playing Ball with the Boys, a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the emerging role that women play in sports broadcasting and reporting, as well as in the business of sports. Ross interviews a number of the biggest names from Kolber and Kremer to USA Today columnist Christine Brennan, Lesley Visser, and many others delivering firsthand accounts of the struggles and triumphs of women succeeding in what has long been a man's game.

Author : Liz Tigelaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 159514112X

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PrettyTough by Liz Tigelaar Pdf

Two feuding sisters from Malibu, California, take their rivalry to the soccer field when both girls make the high school team.

Author : Amy B. Rogers
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534524224

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Should Girls Play Sports with Boys? by Amy B. Rogers Pdf

Why do boys and girls often play on separate sports teams? Some might argue that biological differences play a part in separating genders on the athletic field. Others might say that sexist mindsets are the main reason for the division of genders in sports. These points of view, along with others, are presented to readers through informative, engaging main text, fact boxes, and graphic organizers. As readers study these different perspectives on the same issue, they develop their own informed opinions and gain a deeper understanding of gender and its role in everyday life.