How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports - Rick Eckstein

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports

The Pay-to-Play Pipeline, with a New Preface

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7680-1 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
Featuring a new preface by the author, this book looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic and personal landscape for girls and young women. Filled with interviews from female athletes of all ages, this book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more corporate, to the detriment of participants.
More girls are playing sports than ever before—which, on the surface, is great for girls because sports offer positive and empowering fun for young women. In reality, though, few young athletes report “fun” as a reason they play sports. The rates of concussions and repetitive-use injuries are on the rise, and kids are encouraged to specialize in a single sport at earlier and earlier ages, even at the expense of friends, other activities, and health. Through years of extensive research, Rick Eckstein discovered that college athletics have had an alarming impact on this trend in youth sports, particularly for girls.

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic—and personal—landscape for girls and young women. Filled with powerful interview excerpts from women athletes of all ages, as well as coaches, league officials, and others, the book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more commercialized, to the detriment of participants. The book looks at a range of sports, with case studies including soccer, field hockey, ice hockey, figure skating, and Ultimate Frisbee.

Featuring a new introduction to bring this evergreen topic up to the present, How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls’ Sports is an important and timely reminder that even as we celebrate sports’ potential to have a positive impact on a girl’s life, changes need to be made in college and youth athletics to improve the experiences of young athletes so that sports become fun once again.

Rick Eckstein is professor of sociology at Villanova University and the author of Public Dollars, Private Stadiums and Nuclear Power and Social Power. His research on sports is cited widely in media such as the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, and many others. He has received awards for both his teaching and his writing. He was a volunteer youth sports coach for over fifteen years.

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Introduction
Chapter One: The Female Youth Sports to College Pipeline
Chapter Two: Higher Education and the Youth Sports to College Pipeline
Chapter Three: The Commercialized Youth Sports to College Pipeline
Chapter Four: Creating Demand for the Youth Sports to College Pipeline
Chapter Five: Female Sports on Male Terms
Chapter Six: Saving Girls’ Youth Sports by Changing Higher Education
Appendix: The Challenges of Ethnography

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 228 mm
Gewicht 367 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5381-7680-7 / 1538176807
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-7680-1 / 9781538176801
Zustand Neuware
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