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When Women Stood
The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World|
35,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 08.02.2023 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781538171356 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 364 |
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<p><span>An unapologetically candid and illuminating history of women and their fight for equality, told through the influential world of sports.</span></p>
<p><span>From early Amazons to modern-day athletes, women have been fighting for their rightful place in the world. The history of these female athletes—whether warriors on the battlefield or competitors in the sports arena—has often been neglected, yet it is through sports that women have changed society, gaining entry into education, travel, politics, and more.</span></p>
<p><span>When Women Stood</span><span> is an eye-opening chronicle of the amazing women who refused to accept the status quo and fought for something better for themselves and for those who would follow. Featuring exclusive insight from athletes such as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Kathrine Switzer, Nancy Lieberman, Briana Scurry, and Nancy Hogshead-Maker, this book includes the stories of female football players, Olympic athletes, powerlifters, and soccer stars, of historians, archeologists, crusaders, and scientists. </span></p>
<p><span>Women’s sports history cannot be told without also telling the story of the fight for gender and racial equality, economics, medical biases, gay and transgender history, violence, religion, media, abuse, and activism. When Women Stood is the first to go beyond the record books and gold medal counts to truly dig into the vital role women and sports have played in instigating change in society as a whole. And it shows that, despite seemingly unsurmountable odds, the true spirit of the female athlete can never be restrained.</span></p>
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<p><span>From early Amazons to modern-day athletes, women have been fighting for their rightful place in the world. The history of these female athletes—whether warriors on the battlefield or competitors in the sports arena—has often been neglected, yet it is through sports that women have changed society, gaining entry into education, travel, politics, and more.</span></p>
<p><span>When Women Stood</span><span> is an eye-opening chronicle of the amazing women who refused to accept the status quo and fought for something better for themselves and for those who would follow. Featuring exclusive insight from athletes such as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Kathrine Switzer, Nancy Lieberman, Briana Scurry, and Nancy Hogshead-Maker, this book includes the stories of female football players, Olympic athletes, powerlifters, and soccer stars, of historians, archeologists, crusaders, and scientists. </span></p>
<p><span>Women’s sports history cannot be told without also telling the story of the fight for gender and racial equality, economics, medical biases, gay and transgender history, violence, religion, media, abuse, and activism. When Women Stood is the first to go beyond the record books and gold medal counts to truly dig into the vital role women and sports have played in instigating change in society as a whole. And it shows that, despite seemingly unsurmountable odds, the true spirit of the female athlete can never be restrained.</span></p>
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<p><span>When Women Stood</span><span> is an unapologetically new sport and social history that unveils the often-overlooked chronicle of women and their fight for equality. From early Amazons and suffragists to modern-day athletes and social influencers, this is an eye-opening history of women told through the always-influential world of sports.</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 1: Early Women Warriors</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: The Media Image of Women of Enlightenment</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: White Women in Sport</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: Suffragist Movement</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: Women of Color</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6:The Importance of Race, Sports and the Polite Society</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7: Women, War and Her Entry into Sport</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8: A League of Their Own</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9: The Real History Behind Title IX and the Battle of the Sexes</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10: Media Relations and the Second Wave Woman</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11: The Third Wave and the Women of the 80s and 90s</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 12: Exploitation of the Female Image</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 13: Modern Medicine for the Modern Woman</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 14: Lesbians in Sport & Society</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 15: The Closing of the Twentieth Century</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 16: Sports & Abuse</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 17: The Fourth Wave of Women in Sports & Society </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 18: Transgender Female Athletes in Sport</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 19: Title IX in the New Millenium </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 20: Game Changers</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 21: Where Do We Go from Here?</span></p>
<p><span>Postscript: Regarding the Women Who Participated in this Book</span></p>
<p><span>Notes</span></p>
<p><span>Index</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: The Media Image of Women of Enlightenment</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: White Women in Sport</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: Suffragist Movement</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: Women of Color</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6:The Importance of Race, Sports and the Polite Society</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7: Women, War and Her Entry into Sport</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8: A League of Their Own</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9: The Real History Behind Title IX and the Battle of the Sexes</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10: Media Relations and the Second Wave Woman</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11: The Third Wave and the Women of the 80s and 90s</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 12: Exploitation of the Female Image</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 13: Modern Medicine for the Modern Woman</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 14: Lesbians in Sport & Society</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 15: The Closing of the Twentieth Century</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 16: Sports & Abuse</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 17: The Fourth Wave of Women in Sports & Society </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 18: Transgender Female Athletes in Sport</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 19: Title IX in the New Millenium </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 20: Game Changers</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 21: Where Do We Go from Here?</span></p>
<p><span>Postscript: Regarding the Women Who Participated in this Book</span></p>
<p><span>Notes</span></p>
<p><span>Index</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
<p><span>Allred, who competed on the first U.S. women’s bobsled team in 1994, spotlights in her incisive debut a host of women in sports and their transformative accomplishments. The female athletes highlighted include household names, as well as those largely unknown, and race is often a factor. Black basketball player Alma English Byrd led her team to win the Arkansas state basketball championship in 1939, despite “having never played on a wood floor before the tournament”; high jumper Dorothy Cure was the first Black woman to set a national record in 1914 for the running broad jump; and tennis star Althea Gibson “transcended her sport during times of racial inequity and violence” and won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals in the 1950s. Other chapters discuss how patriarchal ideas of modesty shaped the history of women’s sporting attire, detail polarizing public policies about the inclusion of transgender female athletes in women’s sports, and examine how second-wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s emboldened women to compete in previously male-dominated sports. Allred’s prose is direct, and she lucidly explains how these pioneers have challenged gender and racial stereotypes. The result is an enlightening account of women trailblazers.</span></p>
<p><span>An unapologetically candid and illuminating history of women and their fight for equality, told through the influential world of sports.</span></p>
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<p><span>Alexandra Allred</span><span> is a former professional athlete who made sports history when she won the first-ever U.S. Women’s Bobsled Championship when she was over four months pregnant. A former fighter and fourth degree black belt, Allred has been teaching martial arts, self-defense and mainstream fitness classes for over 25 years. She is the author of the award-winning book </span><span>Atta Girl! A Celebration of Women in Sport</span><span>. Today, she is an adjunct professor and researcher of sports and exercise science. For more, please visit <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alexandraallred.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ceslanina%40rowman.com%7C40fc03dfba5e4014fd3f08da2f6dcf3e%7C8fdc2247c6bb43e686abb8ce3c37e4bf%7C0%7C0%7C637874445939533227%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6cqXY96vJ%2F7%2FbB4vH7YrW32hgg70aTDdLBmBOE2zrqA%3D&reserved=0"><span>www.alexandraallred.com</span></a></span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>3/13/23,</span><span> WAMC Northeast Public Radio / The Roundtable</span><span>: Joe Donahue interviews Alexandra Allred about the book.</span></p>
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<p><span>Link: </span><span><a href="https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-03-13/the-untold-history-of-women-who-changed-sports-and-the-world"><span>https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-03-13/the-untold-history-of-women-who-changed-sports-and-the-world</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span>Link: </span><span><a href="https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-03-13/the-untold-history-of-women-who-changed-sports-and-the-world"><span>https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-03-13/the-untold-history-of-women-who-changed-sports-and-the-world</span></a></span></p>
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