Title:
How college athletics are hurting girls' sports : the pay-to-play pipeline / Rick Eckstein.
Author:
Eckstein, Rick, 1960- author.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Call Number:
GV709.18.U6 E45 2017
Abstract:
"This book looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic and personal landscape for girls and young women. Filled with interview excerpts from women athletes of all ages, the book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more corporate, to the detriment of participants"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781442266285
Physical Description:
xi, 231 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Contents:
The female youth sports to college pipeline -- Higher education and the youth sports to college pipeline -- The commercialized youth sports to college pipeline -- Creating demand for the youth sports to college pipeline -- Female sports on male terms -- Saving girls' youth sports by changing higher education -- Appendix: The challenges of ethnography.
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