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Dive, glide, leap, gallop, or dash into these explorations of sports.

Sport and the Female Disabled Body

Author

Elisabet Apelmo

Description

Based on interviews with 10 young Swedish women with disabilities and their video diaries.

Year

2017

Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women

Author

Roseanne Montillo

Description

Year

2017

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline

Author

Rick Eckstein

Description

Based on extensive quantitative data and more than 100 interviews with administrators, coaches, girls in sports, parents, and athletes. Includes case studies of field hockey, figure skating, ice hockey, soccer, and Ultimate Frisbee.

Year

2017

Real Women Run: Running as Feminist Embodiment

Author

Sandra L. Faulkner

Description

Based on analysis of blogs and websites targeting women runners, interviews with 41 runners, participant observation at various races, and poetic inquiry.

Year

2018

Patty Berg: Pioneer Champion of Women's Golf

Author

Kevin Kenny

Description

Year

2019

Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man's World

Editor

Gertrud Pfister and Stacey Pope

Description

Based on data from the Football Research in an Enlarged Europe project.

Year

2018

Race, Gender, and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic "Other" Girls and Women

Editor

Aarti Ratna and Samaya Farooq Samie

Description

Year

2018

The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism

Author

Heather Sykes

Description

Includes contributions from Salima Bhimani and Manal Hamzeh. Uses anticolonial activism at soccer games during the 2011 Egyptian revolution and at the Olympic Games in London, Sochi, and Vancouver as case studies.

Year

2017

Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics, and Experience

Editor

Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive

Description

Year

2016

No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change

Author

Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner

Description

Year

2018