Punch!: Why Women Participate in Violent Sports

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Wish Publishing, 2002 - 152페이지
Through interviews and questionnaires with athletes, coaches and observers as well as trained mental health professionals, the reasons why women participate in contact sports and what they get out of them are examined in this book.
 

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Why Now?
1
How Women Get Involved
23
Why Women Stay Involved
37
What Kind of Women Are They?
55
Why People Disapprove
89
What Should Be Done?
109
Title IX
123
Our Ice Rink
137
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저자 정보 (2002)

Jennifer Lawler, a full-time free-lance writer, was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, but spent most of her live in Kansas City area. For the past ten years, she has lived in Lawrence, Kansas. She earned a Ph.D. (medieval literature) from the University of Kansas in 1996. She had previously earned a MA and a BGS from that institution. For six years, she taught English at the college level, before pursuing a writing career. Since 1996 she has been a full-time free-lancer, and has written numerous books about sports, popular culture and travel.

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