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How college athletics are hurting girls' sports : the pay-to-play pipeline
- Title
- How college athletics are hurting girls' sports : the pay-to-play pipeline / Rick Eckstein.
- Author
- Eckstein, Rick, 1960-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 17-4097 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 231 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic and personal landscape for girls and young women. Filled with interview excerpts from women athletes of all ages, the book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more corporate, to the detriment of participants"--
- Subject
- College sports for women > Social aspects > United States
- Sports for girls > Social aspects > United States
- Women college athletes > United States
- College sports > Economic aspects > United States
- Sports for children > Economic aspects > United States
- SPORTS & RECREATION > Sociology of Sports
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The female youth sports to college pipeline -- Higher education and the youth sports to college pipeline -- The commercialized youth sports to college pipeline -- Creating demand for the youth sports to college pipeline -- Female sports on male terms -- Saving girls' youth sports by changing higher education -- Appendix: The challenges of ethnography.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-4097
- ISBN
- 9781442266285
- 1442266287
- LCCN
- 2016058326
- OCLC
- 963344237
- Author
- Eckstein, Rick, 1960- author.
- Title
- How college athletics are hurting girls' sports : the pay-to-play pipeline / Rick Eckstein.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Eckstein, Rick, 1960- author. How college athletics are hurting girls' sports. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017 9781442266292
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-4097