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Webliography of Online and Print Sources Gretchen Ghent |
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 Role of Sport addressing gender issues Policy development in gender and sport Understanding and adapting to local contexts Promoting gender equity through sport Project case studies 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: 'M's' in football: Myths, management, marketing, media and money. A reprise 7 – 13 : Donna De Varona Women's soccer in the United States: Yet another American 'Exceptionalism' 14 – 29 Andrei S. Markovits; Steven L. Hellerman The game of choice: Girls' and women's soccer in Canada 30 – 46 : M. Ann Hall Will the 'Iron Roses' bloom forever? Women's football in China: Changes and challenges 47 – 66 Fan Hong; J. A. Mangan Chains, challenges and changes: The making of women's football in Korea 67 – 79 : Eunha Koh Forwards and backwards: Women's soccer in twentieth-century India 80 – 94 Boria Majumdar Asserting the right to play - women's football in Denmark 95 – 111 Anne Brus; Else Trangbæk The fastest growing sport? women's football in England 112 – 127 Jean Williams The challenges of women's football in east and west Germany: A comparative study 128 – 148 Gertrud Pfister Small country - big results: Women's football in Norway 149 – 161 Kari Fasting Women's football in the Republic of Ireland: Past events and future prospects 162 – 181 Ann Bourke A breakthrough: Women's football in Sweden 182 – 204 Jonny Hjelm; Eva Olofsson From heydays to struggles: Women's soccer in New Zealand 205 – 224 : Barbara Cox; Shona Thompson Football feminine - development of the African game: Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa 225 – 253 Martha Saavedra Women's football in Brazil: Progress and problems 254 – 267 Sebastião Votre; Ludmila Mourão Soccer: A world sport for women 268 – 270 Fan Hong and a Select Bibliography 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: Reflexive ethnography, women, and sporting activities; Anne Bolin and Jane Granskog; Just "tri" and "du" it: the variable impact of female involvement in the triathlon/duathlon sport culture; Jane Granskog; Postmodern aerobics: contradiction and resistance; Pirkko Markula; Cultural expressions of African American female athletes in intercollegiate sport; Terese M. Peretto Stratta; Beauty or the beast: the subversive soma; Anne Bolin; A woman's place is in the cardiovascular room?? Gender relations, the body, and the gym; Shari L. Dworkin; Women who ride: the bitch in the back is dead; Barbara Joans; "I was there": gendered limitations, expectations, and strategic assumptions in the world of co-ed softball; Faye Linda Wachs; Changing body aesthetics: diet and exercise fads in a Newfoundland outport community; Dona Davis; Kicking stereotypes into touch: an ethnographic account of women's rugby; P. David Howe. 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: 100 years in women's sports -- Gender role stereotypes and early childhood socialization; Susan L. Greendorfer; Whose body is this? Women's sports and sexual politics; Donald Sabo and Michael A. Messner; Play and competition: an ideological dilemma; Jan Rintala; Separate world, separate lives, separate sporting models; Lynn Couturier and Stevie Chepko; From intersection to collision: women's sports from 1920-1980; Stevie Chepko and Lynn Couturier; The legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias; Betty Hicks; The all-American girls' professional baseball league; Mary Pratt; Letters home: my life with Title IX; Linda Jean Carpenter; High school physical education and sport: are we making progress?; Margery E. Lebeau; Women's physiology and exercise: influences and effects; Carol L. Christensen; Nutrition and the female athlete ; Eating disorders: when the diet goes awry; Helen T. McCarthy; The media industry: representations, images, and issues; Greta L. Cohen; The Olympic Games and the Olympic movement: toward global understanding and acceptance; Darlene A. Kluka; Heterosexism, homophobia, and lesbians in sport; Pat Griffin; Minority women of color: unpacking racial ideology; Doris R. Corbett; Psychological and social challenges for females in sport; Mimi Murray and Hilary Matheson; Coaching collegiate athletes: a practitioner's prescription; Sue Enquist; Equity: what price equality?; Christine H.B. Grant and Charles F. Darley; Growth in the women's sports industry: a study in opportunity; Mary A. Hums and Marjorie Snyder; Legal issues affecting women in sport; Anita M. Moorman and Mary A. Hums; International challenges for women in sport: the quiet revolution; Christine M. Shelton; Leaving it all on the field: journeys of growth and change for women and sport. Hartmann-Tews, Ilse & Pfister, Gertrud Sport and women: social issues in international perspective / London; New York : Routledge/ISCPES, 2003 Contents: Women and sport in comparative and international perspectives: issues, aims and theoretical approaches; Gerturd Pfister and Ilse Hartmann-Tews; Women and sport in Norway; Kari Fasting; Women and sport in the UK; Anita White; The inclusion of women into the German sport system; Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Sascha Alexandra Luetkens; Sports development and inclusion of women in France; Nicole Dechavanne and Ilse Hartmann-Tews; Women and sport in Spain; Núria Puig and Susanna Sosler; Women and sport in the Czech Republic; Ludmila Fialová; Women and sport in Tanzania; Prisca Massao and Kari Fasting; Women and sport in South Africa: shaped by history and shaping sporting history; Denise E.M. Jones; Social issues in American women's sports; D. Margaret Costa; Girls' and women's sport in Canada: from playground to podium; M. Ann Hall; Brazilian women and girls in physical activities and sport; Ludmila Mourão and Sebastião Votre; Women in Colombian sport: a review of absence and redemption; Rubiela Arboleda Gómez and Gloria Vallejo Rendón; Women and sport in Iran: keeping goal in the hijab?; Gertrud Pfister; Women's sport in the People's Republic of China: body, politics and the unfinished revolution; Fan Hong; Gender relations in Japanese sports organisation and sport involvement; Machiko Kimura; Women and sport in New Zealand; Shona M. Thompson; Women's inclusion in sport: international and comparative findings; Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Gertrud Pfister. 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 Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus President, International Association for Sport Information, Chair, North American Sport Library Network, and Member, Editorial Board, ICSSPE C/o The University of Calgary Library, MLB 405A 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta Canada e-mail: gghent@ucalgary.ca http://www.icsspe.org/portal/index.php?w=1&z=5 Webliography of Online and Print Sources Gretchen Ghent