Sport and Gender: Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) on Sale

This custom ebook includes chapters from Women and Sport. It has been specifically designed for students taking the course Sport and Gender (KINE 323) at Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo.

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Custom ebook for students taking the course Sport and Gender (KINE 323) at Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo.

Introduction: Becoming a Female Athlete
Dayna B. Daniels, PhD

Women’s Sport Through the Lens of History
Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD

Title IX and Beyond: The Influence of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements on Women’s Sport
Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD

Women’s Sport in the 21st Century
Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD

Experiences of Female Athletes of Color
Jacqueline McDowell, PhD
Akilah Carter-Francique, PhD

Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD, is a professor in the department of sport management at Drexel University. She is renowned as an authority on the business of college athletics, college student-athlete rights, and Title IX and gender equity. Staurowsky has been featured in numerous national media outlets and served as an expert witness in the historic antitrust case O’Bannon v. NCAA. Staurowsky draws from more than 30 years of experience as both a practitioner and scholar, having served as a collegiate athletic director at multiple colleges as well as a coach at the collegiate level of field hockey, women’s lacrosse, and men’s soccer. Before her appointment at Drexel in 2011, she was a professor at Ithaca College, where she worked for nearly two decades. Staurowsky teaches courses in women and sport, gender issues in sport, legal foundations of Title IX, and sociology of sport. She is a member of the College Sport Research Institute advisory board, the Ursinus College Board of Trustees, and various professional organizations, having previously served as president of the National American Society for the Sociology of Sport. She is coauthor of College Athletes for Hire: The Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA Amateur Myth.