{"product_id":"playing-with-the-boys-why-separate-is-not-equal-in-sports-9780195386776","title":"Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports","description":"Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by \"success.\" By keeping women from \"playing with the boys\" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with men. Using dozens of powerful examples--girls and women breaking through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball, to name just a few--the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant exclusion in most sports, that success entails more than brute strength, and that sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect sex differences, but actively constructs and reinforces stereotypes about sex differences. For instance, women's bodies give them a physiological advantage in endurance sports, yet many Olympic events have shorter races for women than men, thereby camouflaging rather than revealing women's strengths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195386776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEileen McDonagh\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eBreaking the Abortion Deadlock\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Motherless State. \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Pappano\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Connection Gap\u003c\/em\u003e and is currently a writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41138320703603,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":48.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ed994914-61bf-4475-8198-0269117d8242.jpg?v=1701787818","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/playing-with-the-boys-why-separate-is-not-equal-in-sports-9780195386776","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}