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Women in Sports : Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles [2 Volumes] by Adrienne N. Milner and Jomills Henry Braddock II, Editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Covering a breadth of topics surrounding the current state of women in sports, this two-volume collection taps current events, sociological and feminist theory, and recent research to contextualize women's experiences in sports within a patriarchal society and highlight areas for improvement. Women are continuing to break barriers in all aspects of sports, and a growing number of people are beginning to recognize sex disparities in sports as a social problem. Additionally, women's inclusion and exclusion in sports—and their equitable and inequitable treatment on the playing field—have large-scale social, legal, health, and economic consequences. Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles comprehensively examines the state of women in sports by considering current events, controversies, and trends as well as qualitative and quantitative research. The contributors to this volume take a sociological approach to discussing women in sports by questioning dominant assumptions surrounding notions of women's biological athletic inferiority and by examining other social constructs that affect women's experiences in sports, such as race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexu

Who reads Women in Sports : Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles [2 Volumes]?

Author

Adrienne N. Milner and Jomills Henry Braddock II, Editors

Publisher

Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781440851278

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sports, History