WMGS 280 - Women in Sports

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

This course examines how the social, cultural and political aspect of sports helps inform our understanding of gender and vice versa. Issues we will consider include the prevailing notions of women's physical and mental abilities and consciousness regarding sports; the role that sports play in transmitting values, and whether sports, or specific sports, contribute to gender-role stereotypes. Focusing on important women such as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Nancy Lopez, Althea Gibson , Fanny Blankers Koen, Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Nancy Greene, Marilyn Bell, who made sports history in golf, tennis, track and field, skiing, and swimming, respectively, we will consider the historical, political, socioeconomic, and physical factors which supported and/or impeded these women's lives and careers and how these factors informed and were informed by society as a whole. 1.00 units, Lecture

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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