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Playing nice and losing : the struggle for control of women's intercollegiate athletics, 1960-2000

Title
Playing nice and losing : the struggle for control of women's intercollegiate athletics, 1960-2000 / Ying Wushanley.
Author
Wushanley, Ying.
Publication
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2004.

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Description
xviii, 225 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Sports and entertainment
Subject
  • Sports for women > United States > History
  • College sports > United States > History
  • Sex discrimination in sports > United States > History
Note
  • Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Penn State University, 1997).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
JFE 04-7920
ISBN
081563045X (cl. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003024656
OCLC
53485299
Author
Wushanley, Ying.
Title
Playing nice and losing : the struggle for control of women's intercollegiate athletics, 1960-2000 / Ying Wushanley.
Imprint
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Sports and entertainment
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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JFE 04-7920
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