A Century of Women's Basketball. from Frailty to Final Four. INSTITUTION American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Fecreation, Washington, D.C
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 336 377 SP 033 299 AUTHOR Hult, Joan S., Ed.; Trekell, Marianna, Ed. TITLE A Century of Women's Basketball. From Frailty to Final Four. INSTITUTION American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Fecreation, Washington, D.C. National Association for Girls and Women in Sport. REPORT NO ISBN-0-88314-490-5 PUB DATE 91 NOTE 452p. AVAILABLE FROM AAHPERD Publications Sales, 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 22901. PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Collected Works - General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Adapted Physical Education; *Athletic Coaches; *Basketball; College Athletics; Competitive Selection; Feminism; *Governance; Higher Education; *History; Secondary Education; Sports Medicine; *Womens Athletics; *Womens Education IDENTIFIERS AAHPERD; Association for Intercollegiate Athletics Women; *National Association for Girls and Women in Sport; Title IX Education Amendments 1972 ABSTRACT This book consists of writings which focus on the role of physical educators in the growth, development, and evolution of competitive basketball. It is divided into two parts, "The Early Years of Basketball--1890s-1930s" and "The Second Fifty Years of Basketball--1940s-19805." Part I contains 3 sections which place basketball in its historial and cultural framework. The chapters in Part I are as follows: (1) Introduction to Part I;(2) Senda Berenson Abbott: New Loman, New Sport;(3) Clara Gregory Baer: Catalyst for Women's Basketball;(4) The Governance of Athletics for Girls and Women: Leadership by Women Physical Educators, 1899-1949;(5) The Tides of Change in Women's Basketball; (6) The Domestication of Basketball; (7) "The Sacrifice of Maidens" or Healthy Sportswomen? The Medical Debate Over Women's Basketball; (8) Hoops and Skirts: Women!s Basketball on the West Coast, 1992-1930s; (9) Basketball Texas Style, 1910-1933: School to Industrial League Competition; (10) The Early Years of Basketball in Kentucky; and (11) Iowa, the Longtime "Hot Bed" of Girls Basketball.
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