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Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports

Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports

Festle, Mary Jo

Hardcover

Sports GeneralWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0231101627
ISBN13: 9780231101622
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Sep 12 1996
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

This discussion of women's entry into the male-dominated world of sports chronicles the evolution of public attitudes and private ambitions from the 1950s to the present. The book identifies the intricacies of equality, difference and self-determination that have shaped women's participation in sport. Highlighting tennis, basketball and intercollegiate sports, the book explores the strategies which women have used to assert dual roles as athletes and women. The author finds that, in order to avoid negative stereotyping, the commonest strategy was and still is apology for taking an interest in sports.

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