Sprinting to history With her victory in the 400-metre dash at the Sydney Games, Cathy Freeman becomes the first Australian Aboriginal person to win an individual Olympic gold medal. Credit: Reuters/Alamy 2001 A slam dunk for the WNBA Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks becomes the first ...
A history of women in sport prior to Title IX. Sport Journal, 10(2), 1-15.Bell, R. C. (2007). A history of women in sport prior to Title IX. The Sport Journal, 10(2). Retrieved from http://www.thesportjournal.org/article/history-women-sport-prior-title-ix...
摘要: This paper presents a history of women's involvement in sport in the USA, prior to enactment of the federal legislation, commonly referred to as Title IX, in order to eliminate sexual discrimination in education and sport.关键词:
Boston, April 19, 1967, marathon runners set off on a race that will go down in history. Among the participants was Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially compete in a 42 kilometer race. A year earlier during the same marathon, Bobbi Gibb had to disguise herself as a man in ...
The individual vignettes do not adhere to the traditional content of this hit series (which is always touted as "the most successful series in the history of Adult Cinema"). As explicitly stated in the series' early days (launched originally in 2002), it was about women meeting and looking...
Women in Sport Organizations: Historiographical and Epistemological Challenges This chapter uses an intersectional feminist approach to review recent literature in sport history and problematize representations of women within it. We trace how women's sport has become a separate area of sport history, ref...
Boxing - Women, History, Rules: Women did not compete in boxing (or most other sports) in ancient times. In the modern era women boxers were often a novelty, competing in contests staged in London during the 1700s. The 1904 Olympics featured women’s box
However, in view of ongoing research, changes in government regulations, and the constant flow of information relating to drug therapy and drug reactions, the reader is urged to check the package insert for each drug for any changes in indications and dosage and for added warnings and ...
17-year-old pitcher Jackie Mitchell made baseball history when she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Photo Credit: Alchetron Jackie Mitchell took an early interest in baseball; her dad began teaching her the sport as soon as she was old enough to walk, and her next-door neighbor was ...
This chapter examines the long and contentious history of sex control in women's sport leading to the present regulations on hyperandrogenism, which place an upper limit on endogenous testosterone levels in female athletes. Drawing on archival records, interviews with policy-makers (past and present...