Playing Nice and Losing: The Struggle for Control of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics, 1960-2000

by Ying Wushanley

Book Overview

For nearly a century, women physical educators kept an iron-fist control of women's intercollegiate athletics within the "sex-separate" spheres of college campuses and under an educational model of competition. According to the author, Ying Wushanley, that control began to loosen significantly when Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments in 1972. Title IX meant greater opportunities for women in educational activities, including intercollegiate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081563045X
• ISBN13: 9780815630456
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"