Womens American Football

Author : Russ Crawford
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233816
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's American Football written by Russ Crawford and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a time when men's participation rates are decreasing, an increasing number of women are entering the gridiron--and they have a long history of doing so. Women's American Football is a narrative history of girls and women participating in American football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women's team played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women's game became more organized in 1974, when the National Women's Football League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in the United States: the Women's Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams, and the Women's National Football Conference, with eighteen, in addition to a number of smaller leagues. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two thousand girls played on mostly boys' teams, and there are currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada, in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the rapid growth of women playing football, there have been advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play, a documentary on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the Women's Football Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women players and focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since the passage of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich history of the women who have played football, breaking barriers on and off the field.

Author : Russ Crawford
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233824
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's American Football written by Russ Crawford and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a time when men’s participation rates are decreasing, an increasing number of women are entering the gridiron—and they have a long history of doing so. Women’s American Football is a narrative history of girls and women participating in American football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women’s team played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women’s game became more organized in 1974, when the National Women’s Football League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in the United States: the Women’s Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams, and the Women’s National Football Conference, with eighteen, in addition to a number of smaller leagues. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two thousand girls played on mostly boys’ teams, and there are currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada, in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the rapid growth of women playing football, there have been advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play, a documentary on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the Women’s Football Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women players and focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since the passage of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich history of the women who have played football, breaking barriers on and off the field.

Author : Frankie de la Cretaz
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1645036618
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hail Mary written by Frankie de la Cretaz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking story of the National Women’s Football League, and the players whose spirit, rivalries, and tenacity changed the legacy of women’s sports forever. In 1967, a Cleveland promoter recruited a group of women to compete as a traveling football troupe. It was conceived as a gimmick—in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters—but the women who signed up really wanted to play. And they were determined to win. Hail Mary chronicles the highs and lows of the National Women’s Football League, which took root in nineteen cities across the US over the course of two decades. Drawing on new interviews with former players from the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more, Hail Mary brings us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was formed, championed, and eventually shuttered. In an era of vibrant second wave feminism and Title IX activism, the athletes of the National Women’s Football League were boisterous pioneers on and off the field: you’ll be rooting for them from start to finish.

Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1845206754
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Game written by Jean Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared ‘The Future is Feminine' in a 1995 press release. Since then, football has been claimed as the fastest growing participation sport for women globally. An estimated twenty million women play the game around the world, and that figure is on the rise. However, the history of women's participation goes back to at least 1895 and in our enthusiasm for the present, the memory of that longer history can be overlooked or forgotten. A Beautiful Game, supported by a two-year FIFA/ CIES João Havelange Research Scholarship, examines contemporary women's football internationally, with case studies from England, the United States, China and Australia. In each case study, Jean Williams considers the evolution of the women's game against a backdrop of issues, such as media representation, access to facilities, lack of resources, coaching, sponsorship, talent identification, training and professionalisation. T he author examines contentious questions, such as why women are absent from the highest levels of professional football, combining source material from archives, oral history and artefacts. A Beautiful Game analyses the status and image of the women's game from the late nineteenth century to the shifting social values of the present.

Author : Peter Bowie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964691322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football for Women written by Peter Bowie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOOTBALL FOR WOMEN: A handy reference guide for understanding American Football. Its objective is to provide the knowledge & football vocabulary many women need to feel included when the game is being watched or discussed. Objectives of the game are explained! 427 football terms & phrases are defined in alphabetical order! Measures just 4 1/4" X 5 1/2", designed to fit in a pocket or purse so you can easily carry it with you during the football season FOOTBALL FOR WOMEN is written in easy-to-read, non-technical language. Becoming conversant with football terminology can impress your friends & increase your popularity among the sports buffs you associate with. It could even help you climb the corporate ladder, especially if your business associates are football fans. Best of all, it will give you a better understanding of the game. Also available, UNDERSTANDING THE EMOTIONALLY DEPLETE WOMAN. A book for women who have given too much of themselves without receiving the reciprocal love & consideration that is due them. It is about emotional depletion, its causes & its remedies. Send for brochure or order direct. 0-9646913-0-2. 221 p. 4/1/96. $12.95 + S&H, Golden Quill Publishing, P.O. Box 275, Gardnerville, NV 89410. 702-265-2904.

Author : Neal Rozendaal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997063707
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Football Encyclopedia written by Neal Rozendaal and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football is the most popular sport in the United States - for men and boys. What you may not know is that women also play football and have for nearly fifty years. But a comprehensive history of women's football had never been assembled...until now!The Women's Football Encyclopedia is the first authoritative history written on the under-publicized sport of women's football. After nearly three years of research, author Neal Rozendaal has delivered the greatest reference on women's football ever published.Football fans will find the following information and statistics - unavailable in any other publication - catalogued in The Women's Football Encyclopedia: * Game-by-game and year-by-year results for nearly 300 women's football teams* Over 5,000 individual game results* A chronological season-by-season history of the sport* Yearly standings for 16 former and current women's football leagues* A classification system for all league and national champions* A listing of several women's football team records* Franchise player registers with the names of over 10,000 female football playersAlso included are chapters on the "first era" of women's football from 1967-1985, the perversion of the sport known as lingerie football, and the explosive growth of women's football abroad. With over 400 pages of data collected in one place for the first time, The Women's Football Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive source of information ever assembled on the other half of America's greatest sport.

Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135136149
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Game for Rough Girls? written by Jean Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we truly call football England's 'national' game? How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football? Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998 FIFA declared that "the future is feminine" and that football was the fastest growing sport for women globally. The result of several years of original research, the book traces the continuities in women's participation since the beginnings of the game, and highlights the significant moments that have influenced current practice. The text provides: *insight into the communities and individual experiences of players, fans, investors, administrators and coaches *examination of the attitudes and role of national and international associations *analysis of the development of the professional game *comparisons with women's football in mainland Europe, the USA and Africa. A Game for Rough Girls is the first text to properly theorize the development of the game. Examining recreational and elite levels, the author provides a thorough critique, placing women's experience in the context of broader cultural and sports studies debates on social change, gender, power and global economics.

Author : Triumph Books
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1637270518
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Game written by Triumph Books and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer Women's soccer is a game that has so often been relegated to the margins in a world fixated on gender differences above passion and talent. It is a game that could attract 50,000 fans to a stadium in the 1920s, was later banned by England's Football Association grounds for being "unsuitable for females", and has emerged as a global force in the modern era with the US Women's National Team leading the charge. A Woman's Game traces this arc of changing attitudes, increasing professionalism, and international growth. Veteran journalist Suzanne Wrack has crafted a thoroughly reported history which pushes back at centuries of boundaries while celebrating the many wonders that women's soccer has to offer. With the enormous success of the World Cup, 82 million US viewers for the USWNT against Netherlands in the 2019 World Cup Final, enlightened and outspoken players like Megan Rapinoe helping raise the profile of the game across the world, and a fully professional top-tier league going from strength to strength in both the US and the UK, the time cannot be better for this in-depth look at the beautiful game.

Author : Anne Cunningham Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317663799
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Fans of the NFL written by Anne Cunningham Osborne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, sport, particularly football, has been defined as a male domain. Women’s interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active resistance. But increasingly, women are proudly identifying themselves as supporters of their teams, and have become highly desirable audiences for sport organizations and merchandisers. Football provides a unique site at which to examine the complex interplay between three theoretical areas: identity formation and maintenance, commercialization of cultural practices, and gender hegemony. This book explores how women experience their fandom, and what barriers exist for the female fan.

Author : Lee McGowan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000910008
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Football in Oceania written by Lee McGowan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women’s football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game’s historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players’ day-to-day challenges. Alongside presentation of the contemporary state of play and its overarching narrative of women’s game in the region, the book highlights key issues, discusses established and emergent themes, examines relevant contexts, investigates the status of the game at local and national levels, and lays foundations for further research. Its primary objective is to detail and illustrate the historical, social, and organisational development of the women’s game, including international tournaments, national competitions, and teams in an effort to amplify the efforts of the individuals that made or make a significant contribution to the game. It draws on extensive formal and informal discussion, realises insight, proposes the means and related fields of further investigation, and generates new knowledge alongside the uncovering of old. Women’s Football in Oceania covers key events, actors, and moments and fills a gap in research for scholars of sports history and women’s history.