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Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy - The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports (Hardcover)
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Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy - The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports (Hardcover)
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This book uses the world of sports in order to reveal the
complicated history of gender, sexuality, race, and social justice
while connecting those stories to today's athletes. It highlights
the ways sports often contribute to inequalities, but also how they
can help make the world more accepting. Have you ever wondered why
most cheerleaders are girls? It didn't used to be that way. Up
until the early twentieth century, all cheerleaders were actually
boys. And why do some athletes, like Caster Semenya, have to prove
they're women while there's no testing for men? Why do athletes
like Megan Rapinoe and Colin Kaepernick use sports as a platform
for social justice, and should they? These questions and more are
examined in Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of
Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports. Robyn Ryle uses the world of
sports to examine the history, controversy, and current
conversations around sexuality, race, and social justice, bringing
in the stories of today's athletes to highlight where things stand
in the present. Topics covered include gender segregation, gender
testing, transgender athletes, sexuality, homophobia,
globalization, race, and activism. Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a
Boy shows the great strides that have been made in the sports world
recently, but there are still questions that remain and work that
needs to be done. This book brings to attention the ways in which
sports can contribute to inequalities, while also demonstrating how
sports can also help create a more just world for everyone.
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