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What's the Score? : 25 Years of Teaching Women's Sports History
Title
What's the Score? : 25 Years of Teaching Women's Sports History / Bonnie J. Morris.
ISBN
9781684351817
9781684351824
9781684351800
Publication
Bloomington, Indiana : Red Lightning Books, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (294 pages): illustrations (some color)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Who is the first female athlete you admired? Were male and female athletes treated differently in your high school? Is there a natural limit to women's athletic ability? How has Title IX opened up opportunities for women athletes? Every semester since 1996, Bonnie Morris has encouraged students to confront questions like these in one of the most provocative college courses in America: Athletics and Gender, A History of Women's Sports. What's the Score?, Morris's energetic teaching memoir, is a peek inside that class and features a decades-long dialogue with student athletes about the greater opportunities for women-on the playing field, as coaches, and in sports media. From corsets, to segregated schoolyards, to the WNBA, we find women athletes the world over conquering unique barriers to success. What's the Score? is not only an insider's look at sports education but also an engaging guide to turning points in women's sports history that everyone should know"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Contents
Timeline: 101 turning points in women's sports history
Prologue: the bus ride before the game-or, a parable about our low expectations for
Women's sports knowledge
Introduction: nothing better to do on a Friday night?
The strength of our foremothers: engaging students with the past
How female athletes disappear: headlines, publicity, and media activism
Tomboy identities, muscular ideals: discussing gender roles and homophobia in sports
From half-court to federal court: title IX and the American playing field
Global encounters with women's sports: teaching students at sea
Challenges for a women's sports professor: evaluating twenty-fve years of class
Conclusion: when the scoreboard went dark in 2020
Critical thinking resources.
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Genre/Form
History.
Biographies.
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