September 2008
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Websites
EurActiv
www.euractiv.com “The EurActiv Network delivers localized EU policy information in 9 languages, reaching readers across Europe. Network partners complement the ‘Brussels perspective’ on EU affairs with national points of view and adapt the contents to the interests and needs of local readers, comprising not only EU professionals but also students and other interested citizens.” This website maintains a Sports section with a recent section on the following topic:
Sport can help fight gender discrimination: interview with Astrid Aafjes, founder and Executive Director of 'Women Win, international fund for girls and women's empowerment through sport activities. http://www.womenincagency.nl/ Website in the Dutch language. Tuesday 3 June 2008
See also the following news article on women and gender discrimination:
www.euractiv.com/en/sports/sport-help-fight-gender-discrimination/article-172952
International Platform on Sport and Development
Sport and Gender section www.sportanddev.org/learnmore/sport_and_gender/index.cfm See the various topics
And the Bibliography Organizations
CARE
www.care.org/ “CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.” See the section entitled: Sport for Social Change Initiative
www.care.org/careswork/whatwedo/initiatives/sportforsocialchange.asp WomenSport International
www.sportsbiz.bz/womensportinternational/about/founders.htm WomenSport International is an advocacy organization where one of their current initiatives concerns women, sport and social change. A recent publication can be found on their website: Women: 2000 and Beyond
Published to Promote the Goals of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action December 2007 www.sportsbiz.bz/womensportinternational/initiatives/documents/Women_2000_Report.pdf Women’s Sports Foundation, NY
www.womenssportsfoundation.org/ Use the search engine to type in “social change” and the following articles are available: Global Gender Equity: Coming of Age in the Third Millennium Women and Modern Sport Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS)
Section on Gender Equity www.caaws.ca/e/gender_equity/ Centre for Sport and Law, Inc.
www.sportlaw.ca/writings.php See the online PDF article: Findlay, Hilary From Blainey to Pasternak -- Are We Making Progress? (2008) Speaking notes for a presentation at a research conference entitled: To Remember is to Resist: 40 years of Sport and Social Change, 1968- 2008 Periodical Articles
Westkott, Marcia & Coakley, Jay J.
Women in Sport: Modalities of Feminist Social Change, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, 32-45 (1981) (available online to subscribing libraries) Chepyator-Thomson, Jepkorir Rose & Alegi, Peter
Sport and Social Change in Africa Impumelelo: the Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal on African Sports, v2, 2007 http://www.ohiou.edu/sportsafrica/JOURNAL/Volume2/forword.htm Pelak, Cynthia Fabrizio
Athletes as Agents of Change: An Examination of Shifting Race Relations Within Women's Netball in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sociology of Sport Journal, 2005, v22, no. 1, 59-77 (available online to subscribing libraries) Special Issue on: Soccer, women, sexual liberation
Soccer and society vol. 4, nos. 2/3, Summer/Autumn 2003 www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g723691432~db=all Contents:
Books, Reports and Theses
Anderson, Lauren A.
Alleviating athletic stereotype threat in women of sport, Thesis (B.A.) Amherst College, 2005 Available for purchase in online or microfiche format from OregonPDF in Health & Performance www.oregonpdf.org Bartlett, Andrew
About time! :women in sport and recreation in Australia Canberra : Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References Committee, 2006 Senate Committee Report / Environment, Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts References Committee; Parliamentary paper / Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia; no. 172 of 2006; www.aph.gov.au/SENATE/committee/ecita_ctte/womeninsport/report/report.pdf Bloom, Michael, Grant, Michael and Watt, Douglas
Strengthening Canada: The Socio-economic Benefits of Sport Participation in Canada — Report August 2005 Ottawa, ON: The Conference Board of Canada, 2005. Available on the Canadian Heritage, Sport Canada, website at http://pch.gc.ca/progs/sc/pubs/recherches-research_e.cfm Bolin, Anne and Granskog, Jane
Athletic intruders: ethnographic research on women, culture, and exercise Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003 Contents:
Also available online from NetLibrary subscription services www.netlibrary.com
Cohen, Greta L. ed.
Women in sport : issues and controversies, 2nd ed. Oxon Hill, MD: National Association for Girls & Women in Sport, 2001 Contents:
Hartmann-Tews, Ilse & Pfister, Gertrud
Sport and women: social issues in international perspective / London; New York : Routledge/ISCPES, 2003 Contents:
Also available online via NetLibrary subscription services. www.netlibrary.com
Nancy Hogshead-Makar & Andrew S Zimbalist, eds.
Equal play: Title IX and social change / Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007 313 p. ISBN: 9781592133796 McKay, Jim
Managing gender: affirmative action and organizational power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sport Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997 Also available online via NetLibrary subscription services. www.netlibrary.com Contact
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