Accommodation and Resistance to the Dominant Sport Culture Nita Marie Lamborghini University of New Hampshire, Durham

University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Spring 1997 The female coach in the world of collegiate sport: Accommodation and resistance to the dominant sport culture Nita Marie Lamborghini University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation Lamborghini, Nita Marie, "The female coach in the world of collegiate sport: Accommodation and resistance to the dominant sport culture" (1997). Doctoral Dissertations. 1949. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1949 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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LAMBORGHINI Bachelor of Science, Springfield College, 1979 Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Extension School, 1991 DISSERTATION Submitted to the University of New Hampshire in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology May, 1997 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. UMI Number: 9730832 UMI Microform 9730832 Copyright 1997, by UMI Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. UMI 300 North Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. This dissertation has been examined and approved. Bud B. Khleif, Professor of Sociology Michael J. Donnelly, Professor of Sociology O - 1 Cynthia7 M. Duncan, Associate Professor of Sociology _______________ Stephei . Hardy, Professor of Kinesiology —•______________ Allen R. Thompson, Associate Professor of Economics and Business Administration Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. For Ali and for women coaches iii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Graduate school is a process, which as one professor promised me, ends all too soon. For me it has been a process of learning, sharing, and growing. None of which I have done alone. Rather, my own growth and development as a sociologist has been encouraged and nurtured by the many kind and devoted professors and staff members I have encountered along the way. I thank first, Professor Khleif, for the time and effort he spent reading and commenting on each and every chapter of this dissertation. Throughout this process his knowledge, perspective, and faith in me have helped me to persevere. While there are many ways to "do" sociology, I feel fortunate to have had a director who values qualitative approaches and the exploration of meaning. In my coursework with Professor Khleif and through this project I learned to be open to ideas, to be a voice for those who have none, to listen carefully for the meaning and feelings which underlie social behavior, and that compassion is the real first rule of the sociological method. I owe a depth of gratitude to Professor Duncan. The years I spent working with her on her research projects were the most interesting and exciting of my graduate school career, and I am a different person because of it. She spent tremendous amounts of time and energy helping me understand the nature of power, stratification, and social injustice; and nurtured in me the desire to dig deep for answers. Her comments and suggestions for this project, as well as her encouragement, were extremely helpful. I feel fortunate to have started graduate school at the University of New Hampshire shortly before Professor Donnelly arrived, and to have had the opportunity to become one of his students. His high standards motivated me to be more analytical and to be iv Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. more careful in my writing. His interest in history as an avenue to understanding the social world was a model for me, and gave me the confidence to embark on the historical portion of this dissertation. Professor Donnelly's early comments and insights helped me to think more clearly about what it was I was really trying to understand, and how I might integrate data and theory in a writing style which would let the story unfold. These three individuals have been my guides, throughout graduate school and for this project. They have been teachers, confidants, and friends. I thank them all for their time and encouragement, but most of all for their teaching: that unselfish act of sharing yourself and your ideas with others. I thank also Professor Hardy for agreeing to serve on my committee and for his very helpful comments during the early stages of my writing. Also, for sharing with me invaluable resources on the history of women's collegiate sport, without which I would have floundered for some time. I thank Professor Thompson also for serving on my committee and for his helpful comments during the proposal stage of my research. I owe a great deal of thanks to Deena Pesche. I am not sure if any of us would get through graduate school without her. She has been helpful beyond measure in ways too numerous to mention. Somehow she makes us all feel important. Her words of encouragement, her helpful handling of details which at times seemed insurmountable, helped me stay the course. In so many little ways she made me feel I could and would make it through. I want also to thank several members of the Sociology Department new and old, Peter Dodge, Jim Tucker, Murray Strauss, Arnold Linskey, Anita Garey, Heather Turner, Larry Hamilton, and especially Sally Ward. All have helped me along the way. Thank you to my peers and friends with whom I have shared the experience of v Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. coursework, exams, papers, and projects. Maybe ifs sociology, or maybe its UNH, but I have always valued the cooperative approach of other UNH students, the "we're in this together" attitude. I think it is a reflection of the leadership in the Department and the nature of the faculty; whatever the source, it made doing my graduate degree at UNH more pleasurable. This project would not have been possible without the women who took time out of their busy work lives to talk to me; who shared with me their joys and struggles. Perhaps it is part of the research process, or maybe it's just me, but I always feel a bit guilty about "stealing” peoples' time, and "peering" into their worlds for my own selfish ends. It is an unfair exchange, I take everything and give nothing back. The women I interviewed were candid, open, and honest...so much so that at times it felt like a burden whose only relief would be to do justice to their stories-get them right, so to speak. My greatest motivation throughout this project has been to "get it right.” I hope I have done so. It is the only way I know of thanking all of them. Finally, this project would not have been possible without the love and understanding of those closest to me. Ali, who let me stay out of the labor market and put up with a dictator of a boss, and continues to commute back and forth to Boston so I could finish school; who learned to go to social gatherings without me, for years, and developed a thick skin when people stopped understanding why I couldn't come; who put up with tirades and tears knowing that they wouldn't last long and that I would always bounce back; and who promised me she would make me finish and stuck by her guns. Her support and encouragement never wavered and I am deeply grateful. I thank my mother for her constant support and my siblings for theirs, and Sybil, Marvin, Becky, and Reed.

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