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LaVoi discusses youth sport research
by One Sport Voice
posted August 23, 2011 at 1:27pm

On August 21, 2011 I talked with WCCO’s Mark Rosen on Sports Sunday about a variety of topics related to youth sport including sport parents, the snack wars, concussions and more. To view the segment click here. Dr. Nicole LaVoi talks with WCCO's Mar...more

New York World report of the First Women's Intercollegiate Basketball Game in 1896
by LostCentury
posted August 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

College Girls Play Ball in Bloomers, article and illustraiton from The World: New York, August 16, 1896, about the first women's intercollegiate baseketball game between Stanford and California, Berkeley, in San Francisco....more

Utah Pioneer of Women’s College Basketball Opens Campus Athletic Fields to Women in 1897
by LostCentury
posted August 17, 2011 at 1:06am

Lucile Hewett of Utah pioneered women's college basketball and led a movement to open campus athletic fields to women. Article and images from The Salt Lake Herald, May 17, 1897...more

Hoosier Hysteria in 1897 - The Women's Basketball Tournament in Ft. Wayne, Indiana
by LostCentury
posted August 12, 2011 at 4:03pm

March 31, 1897 article from The Fort Wayne News describes two exciting games in a women's basketball tournament, including fine dribbling, shooting and teamwork....more

Women's Basketball in Iowa in 1897
by LostCentury
posted August 11, 2011 at 5:15pm

June 11, 1897 article describes the introduction of women's basketball in the State of Iowa....more

Texas High School Girls’ Basketball Team Formed in 1897
by LostCentury
posted August 10, 2011 at 1:05pm

Galveston Daily News reports formation of a girls' high school basketball team, October 31, 1897, Ball High School...more

Six Feet of Girl and No Candy - Basketball Practice in 1898
by LostCentury
posted August 9, 2011 at 11:56am

March 25, 1898 article from San Francisco Call describes training methods and practice for women's basketball team....more

Refuting “Sex Sells” Women’s Sport
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted August 8, 2011 at 3:44pm

The Nation magazine just published a special issue on the role and impact of sport on U.S. culture. Mary Jo Kane, sport media scholar and the Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, was aske...more

Co-ed Basketball in 1897 led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Daughter
by LostCentury
posted August 8, 2011 at 1:23am

Article from New York Sun, March 7, 1897, Girls and Boys share basketball court. Co-educational movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter....more

Opposite sides of the same coin: The divided world of sports studies
by The Rabbit Hole
posted July 19, 2011 at 10:17am

"To know, more exactly, why it is that a woman can only muster 90 per cent of a man's strength cannot help us comprehend, explain, or change the massive feeling in our society that a woman has no business flexing her muscles anyways." (Willis, 1993) Why ...more

Knight Commission Seeking Grant Proposals
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted July 16, 2011 at 12:20pm

Author: NACWAA The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics is seeking proposals for grant-funded research on policy in intercollegiate athletics. The deadline for submission is August 5, 2011. For a copy of the full RFP, p...more

FIFA Women’s Football Symposium in Germany, Day 2 update
by Soccer Science
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:05am

This is my second day in Frankfurt for the 2011 Women’s Football Symposium (which begins tomorrow) and Women’s World Cup Final (on Sunday). It’s been pretty low key so far and has given me a chance to catch up on time zones and mingle about. Now...more

Injuries and imagery in women’s sports - what's the message?
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:51pm

(This is a topic I wanted to examine in my recent series “Women’s Sports Without Illusions,” especially after a perceptive reader brought it up. I pledged to address it in a new phase of my inquiry that continues on this blog and elsewhere. So here...more

Fencing, Boxing, & the Physical Culture of Women 121 years ago
by LostCentury
posted July 1, 2011 at 3:07am

April 26, 1890 – The Illustrated American The physical culture of women is a subject that, starting as a fashionable fad, has attained the dignity of a real reform movement. Gymnastics are taught in numbers of the schools and colleges for girls bot...more

Some ideas for reworking Title IX
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 20, 2011 at 10:24pm

This is the sixth in a series entitled “Women’s Sports Without Illusions” that critically examines the nearly four decades of the women’s sports movement, including Title IX, cultural and social developments, the growth of professional and intern...more

Women’s Sports Without Illusions: The First Week
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 18, 2011 at 9:07pm

Thanks to all those on Twitter and elsewhere for their comments this week to the start of my series, “Women’s Sports Without Illusions.” I’m really humbled by it all. Of course, I’m not expecting the precincts of The Sisterhood to report in, ...more

Call for Papers: Football (soccer) in the Middle East
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 18, 2011 at 10:28am

We invite scholarly essays, poetry, fiction, and art about the history and culture of football in the Middle East for a special issue of the journal Soccer and Society. This collection will also be incorporated as a book in Routledge’s Sport in the Glob...more

How women have held back women’s sports
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 15, 2011 at 3:46pm

This is the third in a series entitled “Women’s Sports Without Illusions” that critically examines the nearly four decades of the women’s sports movement, including Title IX, cultural and social developments, the growth of professional and intern...more

Women’s sports and the matter of choice
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 14, 2011 at 10:19pm

This is the second in a series entitled “Women’s Sports Without Illusions” that critically examines the nearly four decades of the women’s sports movement, including Title IX, cultural and social developments, the growth of professional and in...more

Calling all Law Professors' Papers on Harassment and Bullying
by Title IX Blog
posted June 10, 2011 at 4:39pm

This is a call for papers on the application of Title IX to bullying and harassment in schools. Selected papers will be presented at the American Association of Law Schools' annual meeting in January and published in the Western New England Law Review. ...more

Coming next week: Special series on women and sports
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 9, 2011 at 9:26pm

Tweet < p> So what’s this racquet all about? There is an excellent answer to this question that I do plan to reveal here very soon. It will be a very personal reply to one of the most important aspects of my life, and it’s one that I’ve als...more

114 years ago - The Athletic Summer Girl of 1897
by LostCentury
posted May 31, 2011 at 1:21am

May 30, 1897 - The Sunday Herald: Syracuse, New York FAIR ONE'S FADS The Athletic Summer Girl of '97 NOT STYLISH TO BE FLABBY Must Excel in Golf, Fencing, Swimming and Rowing The summer girl of 1897 is to be distinctly an athlete. She may still clin...more

1903 - The Birth of Women's Softball
by LostCentury
posted May 22, 2011 at 1:57pm

February, 1903 - Spalding’s Athletic Library Official Indoor Base Ball Guide INDOOR BASE BALL FOR WOMEN By Milo S. Walker, Ph.D., West Division High School, Chicago, Ill. Indoor base ball has been played by the young women of the West Division and ...more

Call For Papers: Girls & Women in Sport & Physical Activity: Creating Change
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted May 18, 2011 at 1:03pm

The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota is hosting an exciting conference Wednesday, November 2, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN, preceding the annual meeting of the North American Society of Sport Sociology. “Gi...more

American Women Bowling in 1872
by LostCentury
posted May 16, 2011 at 1:49pm

1872 bowling article & illustration from The Graphic (London): A Ladies' Game in an American Ten-Pin Alley...more

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