Download or read book Balancing Acts Women in Sport written by Justin Wolfers and published by Brow Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Male Female Energies written by Mary Ellen Flora and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has both male and female vibrations regardless of gender. Learn about the spiritual purpose of male and female energies, female and male relationships, and communication. Take charge of your energies and create the space to grow and heal. Balance your energies to fully experience and express your
Download or read book What Made Maddy Run written by Kate Fagan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something changed. Previously indefatigable Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter. What Made Maddy Run began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy's life. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also struggling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran's life, and her struggle with depression, which also reveals the mounting pressures young people -- and college athletes in particular -- face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social media saturation.
Download or read book Balancing Act written by April Adams and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five girls, four events, and only one gold medal. In gymnastics, your best friends are your biggest rivals. Everyone in the Bellevue Kips is feeling the pressure. They all want to win best all-around gymnast at Optionals and State finals, but only one girl gets the gold.
Download or read book Balancing Act written by Andrew Temte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I believe the most important attribute of strong leadership is balance." So states Andrew Temte in this reflective and uniquely candid look at the capabilities managers and aspiring managers need in today’s workplace. The last 10-20 years have led to a tectonic shift in the leadership traits required by businesses as they navigate increased customer demands for transparency and alignment with shared values. Covering a wide range of topics, from promoting lifelong learning to combatting organizational entropy, Balancing Act is the story of a personal journey towards continuous self improvement.
Download or read book Balancing Act written by Diane Tupper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate, a forty-three-year-old single mother of three, is trying not to panic. As she hobbles down the street to the courthouse in her new high heels, she quickly realizes that law school has done nothing to prepare her for the real world of practicing law. Ready to embark on a year of articling as part of her last steps toward attorney accreditation, Kate finds herself in the midst of a balancing act she fears she will never get right. As she immerses herself in her new corporate life at a family law firm, she must somehow find her way in an intimidating environment made worse by a lack of an office, secretary, or her own chair. While dealing with the whirlwind that surrounds her lonely and rejected clients enduring divorce, custody battles, and the division of property, Kate is kept incredibly busy by the demands of her job and the pressure of caring for her children. To top it off, now she has been put in charge of the law firms softball team. Balancing Act shares a humorous, heartfelt glimpse into a single mothers struggle to balance the needs of her family with the demands of her career. Only time will tell if she will make it to the finish line without losing her balance.
Download or read book Women in Sports written by Adrienne N. Milner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a breadth of topics surrounding the current state of women in sports, this two-volume collection taps current events, sociological and feminist theory, and recent research to contextualize women's experiences in sports within a patriarchal society and highlight areas for improvement. Women are continuing to break barriers in all aspects of sports, and a growing number of people are beginning to recognize sex disparities in sports as a social problem. Additionally, women's inclusion and exclusion in sports—and their equitable and inequitable treatment on the playing field—have large-scale social, legal, health, and economic consequences. Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles comprehensively examines the state of women in sports by considering current events, controversies, and trends as well as qualitative and quantitative research. The contributors to this volume take a sociological approach to discussing women in sports by questioning dominant assumptions surrounding notions of women's biological athletic inferiority and by examining other social constructs that affect women's experiences in sports, such as race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. The book offers a complete and up-to-date account of women's experiences in sports through coverage of the history of women's participation in sports (with a focus on exceptional female athletes) and of the increasing number of women who are competing in traditionally male sports, such as football, baseball, and mixed martial arts. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for the issues of equity that women face, both within the world of sports and in society in general.
Download or read book Women and Sports written by Laura La Bella and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the passage of Title IX legislation in the 1970s, women and girls have encountered fewer barriers to their participation in sports at all levelscommunity, high school, college, and professional. Some women have successfully lobbied to play traditionally male sportssuch as football, ice hockey, and boxing. Women athletes still face discrimination and double-standards, and their teams and programs suffer from underfunding and lack of exposure. Women athletes also face unique challenges, such as rigid gender expectations, eating disorders, and body image problems. Readers are offered a thorough and ultimately inspiring survey of the complex history of female athletes, the current lay of the land, and the hopeful but by no means assured future of women's participation in sports. Most important, readers may be inspired to further the ongoing fight for women's full access and right to participation in sports at every level.
Download or read book The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports written by Stephanie Schnurr and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sport and Gender Identities written by Cara Carmichael Aitchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays drawing together perspectives from a number of disciplines across philosophy, sociology, gender studies and more, to explore ethical questions raised by issues of gender and sexuality in sport.
Download or read book Invisible Seasons written by Kelly Belanger and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimi nation in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between men’s and women‘s separate but obviously unequal sports programs. In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the MSU women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics. They learned the hard way that even groundbreaking civil rights laws are not self-executing. This behind-the-scenes look at a university sports program challenges us all to think about what it really means to put equality into practice, especially in the money-driven world of college sports.
Download or read book The Professionalisation of Women s Sport written by Ali Bowes and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport draws upon the expertise of a range of scholars from the fields of sport sociology, sport history, sport economics to critically discuss the complex and often fragmented histories of women’s involvement in professional sport.
Download or read book Exercise and Sport Their Influences on Women s Health Across the Lifespan Volume II written by Trine Moholdt and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Game written by Tadhg Coakley and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multifaceted reflection on sport. It is part memoir, outlining Tadhg Coakley’s time as a player and fan of sport and how it has shaped his life. It is also a book of essays critiquing several aspects of sport, both good and bad, and showing its influence in the wider world. It is also a work of auto-fiction, wherein Coakley uses his novelistic abilities to chart narratives, personal and public. It is, finally, a work of scholarship, brilliantly interweaving the author’s view of a life spent inside and outside the white lines with the cultural discourse of previous writers and thinkers on the many themes explored. The book is an exploration and explanation of what sport means, why it is the world's largest single consumer product and such a dominant/pervasive presence in Irish culture. Why, for example, were the terms ‘European Championships’ and ‘Premier League’ the top Google searches in Ireland for 2021? Why was Christian Eriksen the most searched person? In this book Tadhg Coakley interacts with sport in the way that Olivia Laing interacts with isolation (The Lonely City) Sinéad Gleeson and Emilie Pine interact with the female body and female experiences (Constellations and Notes to Self), Doireann Ní Ghríofa interacts with being haunted by an eighteen-century poet (A Ghost in the Throat) and Fintan O’Toole interacts with Irish history (We Don’t Know Ourselves). This is a book that needed to be written. We are consuming sport in ever-greater gulpfuls – often blindly. The ‘coverage’ of sport is vast: newspapers, magazines, books, a whole raft of TV channels in many languages, websites, podcasts, blogs, radio stations, hourly sports bulletins with every news cycle. Why is that, and what does it mean? The book does not romanticise or idealise sport. Sport has a dark side and is rife with greed, corruption, sexism, homophobia, nationalism and a raft of toxic masculine behaviour – and the author interrogates his own behaviour and attitudes in respect of some of these. On the other hand, in sport – as in art – people can forge their own identities in grace, imagination and the possibility of what may be. This contradictory duality and the cognitive dissonance it carries with it is one of the most fascinating aspects of sport. Sport, like story, is mostly about loss. Ultimately, sport, like story, is about what happens to the fans outside the white lines and, for the readers off the page.
Download or read book European Integration and Sport written by European Association for Sociology of Sport. Conference and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport cultures in Europe are developing as a result on the one hand of the internal situation within each society, and on the other of adaptation of influences and directions from outside. In the process of European integration global interconnection and cultural differentiation occur simultaneously. The articles of the reader give ideas and empirical data on the role of sport in European societies and the uniting Europe.
Download or read book Balancing Act written by Mary Ellen Ashcroft and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Ellen Ashcroft invites women to learn who God has created them to be and what he has called them to do with their lives. She offers a unifying vision in which family, career and service all find their proper places.
Download or read book Balancing Act written by Eric Ladley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Nixon has been criticized by some conservatives for going to China. In fact, Nixon has received criticism from people on all points along the political spectrum for actions that he took. Balancing Act is a positive assessment of Nixon that takes his most successful policy, improving relations with China, and concludes that he maintained his conservative principles by improving relations with a communist country.
