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Shannon Marie Scovel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation assesses the self-representation and representation of ten elite collegiate women athletes during the first year of the NCAA's new 'name, image and likeness' policies. Building on theories of representation, gender performance, self-presentation and intersectionality, this study explores how women athletes reproduce notions of…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, Womens Athletics, Self Concept, College Athletics
Wilson, Amy Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In 1971, female professional physical educators in higher education formed the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) to govern women's college athletics. The AIAW presidents gathered at the University of Iowa in July 1980 for a five-day conference: "AIAW... A Decade of Progress: Presidential Review" to create a…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Physical Education, Females, College Athletics
Suggs, Welch – Princeton University Press, 2006
"A Place on the Team" is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. The federal law guaranteeing women's rights in education, Title IX opened gymnasiums and playing fields to millions of young women previously locked out. Journalist Welch Suggs chronicles both the law's successes and failures-the exciting…
Descriptors: Females, Equal Education, Athletes, Courts
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Bruening, Jennifer E.; Armstrong, Ketra L.; Pastore, Donna L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
This study examined the sport participation patterns of 12 African American female collegiate student athletes using qualitative methods. Data were collected at a large midwestern university during the 1998-99 academic year. An emergent theme was the effect of silencing by the media, athletic administrators, coaches, and other student athletes on…
Descriptors: African Americans, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Females
Wenniger, Mary Dee, Ed. – Women in Higher Education, 1997
The 12 issues of this newsletter focus on issues concerned with women students, faculty, and administrators in higher education. Each issue includes feature articles, news items, and profiles of significant people. The issues' main articles address: women in athletics; leadership development for women; the first year in academic administration;…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Athletics, College Faculty
Hult, Joan S., Ed.; Trekell, Marianna, Ed. – 1991
This book consists of writings which focus on the role of physical educators in the growth, development, and evolution of competitive basketball. It is divided into two parts, "The Early Years of Basketball--l890s-l930s" and "The Second Fifty Years of Basketball--1940s-1980s." Part I contains 3 sections which place basketball…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Athletic Coaches, Basketball, College Athletics
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Vargyas, Ellen – Strategies, 1992
Title IX protects individuals from sex discrimination in any educational activity receiving federal funding. A lawyer from the National Women's Law Center answers questions about Title IX from coaches, teachers, and administrators at all levels. The questions focus on women and athletics. (SM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Athletics, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Wenniger, Mary Dee, Ed. – Women in Higher Education, 1996
This document consists of the issues of a 1996 newsletter on women students, teachers, and administrators in higher education. Each issue includes feature articles, news on higher education, profiles of significant people in the field, and job announcements. The issues' main articles concern: (1) a successful campaign to increase female…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Administration, College Athletics, College Faculty