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Can’t attend the Distinguished Lecture on Monday? Watch it LIVE!
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted October 15, 2009 at 5:22pm

The Tucker Center’s Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture, Facing Off Over Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports, will be available via live stream on Monday, Oct. 19, beginning at 7:00pm. The links to watch the lecture remotely are as follo...more

Where are the Photographs of Female Coaches?
by One Sport Voice
posted October 14, 2009 at 1:50pm

As part of my research and outreach I’m always trying to track down pictures of female coaches, specifically at the youth level, that don’t look “staged”. I’ve looked in most all the photo websites like IStock Photo, and when you type in “fe...more

Boxing and Breasts in the News, for Good and Ill
by The Glowing Edge
posted October 14, 2009 at 12:28pm

I know, I just posted on the freaky hybrid sport of chessboxing and now I have to talk about breasts and boxing and the 2012 Olympics. The tags on my blog are getting weirder and weirder. SO. Here’s what’s up. There are several countries still tha...more

The history of women’s sports we’d rather forget (but shouldn’t)
by Fair Game News
posted October 14, 2009 at 12:20pm

By Laura Pappano Word last week that rare film footage of Babe Ruth had been discovered by a New Hampshire man among his grandfather’s home movies provided yet another opportunity to lovingly recall the delightful history of sport, in this case, baseba...more

Example of reproducing traditional gender roles in soccer
by One Sport Voice
posted October 13, 2009 at 12:12am

This example comes from Fox Soccer.com titled Soccer Wives and Girlfriends. Why this is on a sport website is interesting food for thought. I looked for “Soccer Husbands and Boyfriends” on the WPS website but (thankfully) did not find any. It is p...more

ESPN The Body Issue: What I have seen and heard
by After Atalanta
posted October 12, 2009 at 12:56pm

OK so I have tried several times this past weekend to buy the Body Issue so I can take a (good, more on that in a sec) look at it myself. But I cannot find it. Has my progressive town refused to carry it? More likely that I just haven't been to a big enou...more

The Beautiful Naked People
by MsAkiba
posted October 11, 2009 at 2:40pm

ESPN: The Body Issue features naked women in sports!...more

Would-Be Women Astronauts Denied the Right to Serve
by Womenstake
posted October 8, 2009 at 2:27pm

by Melanie Ross Levin, Outreach Manager, National Women’s Law Center In the 1950s, as the space race was heating up, NASA trained a number of women to serve as astronauts. Sadly, that training was as far as they got. Newly released medical tests pub...more

College ticket prices: Why they reveal a post Title IX problem
by Fair Game News
posted October 7, 2009 at 4:32pm

By Laura Pappano Reporter Libby Sander’s short piece in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education (click here to read it), highlighted our Wellesley Centers for Women study with a simple headline: “Even at Elite Programs, Ticket Prices for Women’...more

GLAD to be working together
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 7, 2009 at 3:56pm

The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is a New England-based legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression. They were one of the driving forces behind ...more

Sports are about more than scores and highlights
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 4, 2009 at 4:34pm

The banners for Pittsburgh area teams are made by hand, at an extremely small factory where most, if not all, of the actual people who sew are women. Recently they were interviewed about the latest Stanley Cup banner for the Penguins, and one of them re...more

Can the NFL make pink a legit sport color?
by Fair Game News
posted October 1, 2009 at 6:44pm

By Laura Pappano I can’t wait to see what happens when I tune in to the NFL this weekend. Will we see more dropped passes? Missed routes? Hugging and giggling in the huddle? After all, the league is kicking off a month-long effort to support breast ...more

ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue - Are my interests prurient?
by After Atalanta
posted October 1, 2009 at 5:35pm

I have to say that the more I read about ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue the more I am looking forward to its release next week. And I am not the only one.I think many are intrigued by whether and how this naked stars/serious message thing is going to work...more

Do I trust Jessica Mendoza?
by After Atalanta
posted September 29, 2009 at 11:38am

I just read about the forthcoming issue of ESPN, The Magazine which is being called the "Body Issue." (Isn't every issue of a magazine that covers sports exclusively always a body issue given that they are talking about and photographing bodies?)The USA ...more

Are we dressing our girls out of sports?
by Fair Game News
posted September 28, 2009 at 6:46pm

By Katie Culver At the playground the other day a girl struggled to climb up a curved ladder after my son. She was wearing sandals. Her feet kept getting tangled in her dress. Another day, a brother and sister at the park with their grandparents were ...more

Gender: Your chance to learn more
by After Atalanta
posted September 25, 2009 at 12:04pm

Since the issue of intersexed individuals has arisen lately, I thought I would share these two opportunities to learn more. Especially because the Caster Semenya situation revealed just how little people seem to know. Granted, because intersex is an umbre...more

Glamour Magazine Part II
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 24, 2009 at 3:23pm

We have a letter! From a fan! We have a fan. We have a fan not related to us genetically or geographically. He wrote about our commentary on the Jayne in Glamour blog. And he mostly agrees with us. Another reason to post what he said! Let me share wi...more

The mommy discourse: Motherhood and sexification
by After Atalanta
posted September 24, 2009 at 3:15pm

Misty May is coming back to professional volleyball this month. May is the latest athlete mommy to return to competition. And thus the mommy discourse continues. Laura Pappano comments on May's return and discusses the other mommy returns. It seems like s...more

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