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Recommended Reading

Andrews, David, ed. Michael Jordan, Inc: Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.

Bandy, Susan J. and Anne S. Darden, eds. Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women’s Experiences in Sport. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, 1999.

Bass, Amy, ed. In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Birrell, Susan and Mary G. McDonald, eds. Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.

Bok, Derek and William G. Bowen. The Shape of the River. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Bolin, Ann and Jane Granskog. Athletic Intruders: Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Bowen, William G. and Sarah A. Levin. Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Bowen, William G. and James L. Shulman. The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Buren, Jodi. 100 Women – 100 Sports. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2004.

Carpenter, Linda Jean and R. Vivian Acosta. Title IX. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2005.

Davis, Laurel R. The Swimsuit Issue and Sport: Hegemonic Masculinity and Sports Illustrated. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Duncan, Margaret Carlisle and Michael A. Messner, “Gender in Televised Sports: 1989, 1993 and 1999,” Los Angeles, CA: Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, 2000.

Duncan, M.C., Bunker, L.K., Freedson, P., Greenberg, D., Oglesby, C., Sabo, D., & Wiese-Bjornstal, D. “Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Girls: Physical and Mental Health Dimensions from an Interdisciplinary Approach.” Report of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, 1997.

Dworkin, Shari and Leslie Heywood. Built to Win: The Female Athlete As Cultural Icon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Fields, Sarah K. Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Gottesman, Jane. Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? New York: Random House, 2001.

Griffin, Pat. Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1998.

Hall, M. Ann. Feminism and Sporting Bodies: Essays on Theory and Practice. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1995.

Heywood, Leslie. Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete’s Story. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Howard, Johnette. The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship. New York: Broadway Publishing, 2005.

Lenskyj, Helen. Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities. Toronto, ON: Women’s Press, 2003.

McKay, Jim, Michael Messner and Don Sabo, eds. Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.

Messner, Michael. Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sport. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

O’Reilly, Jean and Susan Cahn, eds. Women in American Sports. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, in press.

Pemberton, Cynthia Lee A. More Than a Game: One Woman’s Fight for Gender Equity in Sport. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.

Roberts, Selena. A Necessary Spectacle : Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game. New York: Crown Publishing, 2005.

Sack, Allen L. and Ellen J. Staurowsky. College Athletes for Hire: the Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA’s Amateur Myth. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.

Scranton, Sheila and Anne Flintoff, eds. Gender and Sport: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2002.

Simon, Rita J., ed. Sporting Equality: Title IX Thirty Years Later. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005.

Sorek, Tamir. Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: Citizens Offside. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Suggs, Welch. A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Wenner, Lawrence, ed. Media, Sports, and Society. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989.

Wushanley, Ying. Playing Nice and Losing: The Struggle for Control of Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics, 1960-2000. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004.

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