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Author:
Eckstein, Rick, 1960- author.
Title:
How college athletics are hurting girls' sports : the pay-to-play pipeline, with a new preface / Rick Eckstein.
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
pages cm
Subject:
College sports for women--Social aspects--United States.
Sports for girls--Social aspects--United States.
Women college athletes--United States.
College sports--Economic aspects--United States.
Sports for children--Economic aspects--United States.
College sports--Economic aspects.
Women college athletes.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1538176807
9781538176801
LCCN:
2022057691
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

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