Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 225 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Sports and entertainment

Subject

1. College sports > United States > History
2. Sports for women > United States > History
3. Sex discrimination in sports > United States > History

Contents

1. Introduction : women's intercollegiate athletics in a male-dominated society -- The background of women's intercollegiate athletics : 1890s-1960s -- Cold War, Olympic defeat, and women's sport as a pawn : the AAU-NCAA battle -- Growing NCAA interest in women's intercollegiate athletics : 1963-1968 -- Early NCAA attempts at the governance of women's intercollegiate athletics : 1968-1973 -- The Kellmeyer lawsuit : scholarships, equal opportunities, and the questions of power and control -- Equality over power : the impact of Title IX on intercollegiate athletics for women -- The challenge to AIAW's solitary control : 1975-1979 -- Margot Polivy, legal costs, and the AIAW's financial disaster -- From NCAA "governance plan" to the end of AIAW operation -- The final judgment : a tale of two trials -- Epilogue : reducing the gap : gender equity in intercollegiate athletics at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Call number

1. JFE 04-7920

Note

1. Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Penn State University, 1997).

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Wushanley, Ying.

Title

1. Playing nice and losing : the struggle for control of women's intercollegiate athletics, 1960-2000 / Ying Wushanley.

Imprint

1. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2004.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. Sports and entertainment

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Table of contents

LCCN

1. 2003024656

ISBN

1. 081563045X (cl. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 04-7920