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Playing With the Boys

Eileen McDonagh,Associate Professor of Political Science Eileen McDonagh,Laura Pappano,Writer-In-Residence Laura Pappano
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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 : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195167566

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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.

Playing with the Boys

Liz Tigelaar,Nicole Leigh Shepherd
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Author : Liz Tigelaar,Nicole Leigh Shepherd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1595141138

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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.

Playing With the Boys

Nicole Leigh Shepherd
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Author : Nicole Leigh Shepherd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781440634260

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New girl Lucy is desperate for friends. She tries out for Beachwood High soccer but, despite her amazingly accurate kick, fails to make the team. When the coach points out that varsity football is looking for a new kicker, Lucy is skeptical. Football? Isn't that a boys' game? But on the gridiron, Lucy discovers that she feels strong—in control for the first time since her mother died. She loves football. She actually wants to play! (She also wants to hang out with super-cute quarterback Ryan Conner. But that's just icing on the cake.) Too bad no one else wants her on the team. Not the coach, her teammates, or especially her overprotective dad. Will Lucy cave in to the pressure? Or will she prove she's pretty tough after all?

Michigan vs. the Boys

Carrie S. Allen
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Author : Carrie S. Allen
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781525312540

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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.

Playing with Anger

Howard C. Stevenson
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Author : Howard C. Stevenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313057076

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This volume presents unique, culturally relevant interventions that can teach coping skills to African American boys with a history of aggression. Stevenson provides the history and current events for readers to understand why these youths perceive violence as the only way to react. Interventions and preventative actions developed in the PLAAY project (Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression) are presented. These include teaching coping skills and anger management via athletics such as basketball and martial arts. Frustrations and strengths in those athletics illuminate the players' emotional lives, and serve as a basis for self-understanding and life skill development.

Playing Ball with the Boys

Betsy Ross
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Author : Betsy Ross
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781578604609

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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. The book features interviews with the legendary women’s sports activist Billie Jean King, as well as Women’s Professional Soccer League leader Tonya Antonucci and ESPN College Basketball Analyst Rebecca Lobo. Prominent women working in the media are also featured in the book, including WFAN’s Ann Ligouri, CBS’ Lesley Visser, ESPN’s Pam Ward, USA Today’s Christine Brennan and Sports Illustrated’s Selena Roberts. Playing Ball with the Boys delivers firsthand accounts of the struggles and triumphs of women succeeding in what has long been a man's game.

Playing Ball with the Boys

Betsy M. Ross
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Author : Betsy M. Ross
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781458721235

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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.

Playing with Languages

Amy L. Paugh
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Author : Amy L. Paugh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857457615

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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children's agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children's cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.

PrettyTough

Liz Tigelaar
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Author : Liz Tigelaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 159514112X

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

Readings in Managerial Psychology

Harold J. Leavitt,Louis R. Pondy,David M. Boje
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Author : Harold J. Leavitt,Louis R. Pondy,David M. Boje
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226469913

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With more than half the papers new to this book, the fourth edition of Readings in Managerial Psychology represents a substantial revision of this popular text. This edition focuses more than ever on the managing process, both within and between organizations, and such "soft" issues as managing creativity and imagination, managers' values and beliefs, and organizational culture play a larger role than they have before. Readings in Managerial Psychology is designed for managers in business and industry, students of management, public and university administrators, and executives in other organizations. The collection can be used independently or as a companion volume to Harold J. Leavitt and Homa Bahrami's Managerial Psychology: Managing Behavior in Organizations (5th edition, 1988), also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Playing Ball with the Boys

Betsy Ross
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Author : Betsy Ross
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1578604613

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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.

Educating the Young Thinker

C. Copple,I. E. Sigel,R. Saunders
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Author : C. Copple,I. E. Sigel,R. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136559556

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Published in the year 1984, Educating the Young Thinker is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley
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Author : Mart Crowley
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640041

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

The Boys of Summer

Roger Kahn
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Author : Roger Kahn
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781312070

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This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.

Playing It Forward

Guylaine Demers,Lorraine Greaves,Sandra Kirby,Marion Lay
Playing It Forward Book PDF

Author : Guylaine Demers,Lorraine Greaves,Sandra Kirby,Marion Lay
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781927583524

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Playing It Forward by Guylaine Demers,Lorraine Greaves,Sandra Kirby,Marion Lay Pdf

Over the last 50 years, the struggles to achieve equity in sport have become central to the feminist mission. This book contains an inspiring collection of stories from the women on the front lines: athletes, coaches, educators, and activists for women's sport, who have done so much to foster change. Many of the women profiled here reflect on their tough beginnings in sport: being isolated and unconnected, competing in makeshift settings, training alone, and inadequate equipment. But they also reflect on the joy of movement, teamwork, and competition. These women grew to be remarkable role models and helped to dismantle sexism in sport. To read these stories is to swell with pride over their victories, to empathize with their battles with discrimination, and to become re-energized to confront collectively the many hurdles left to clear.