Sports, Gender and Education
The current issue of the Scholar and Feminist Online is all about sports and gender, with interesting pieces on the status and impact of Title IX, feminist activism and sports advocacy, and visual culture in the world of sport. I'm teaching on sports this semester, and may try and work in some of these issues. If you're teaching sports and gender and think this issue might help, the Scholar and Feminist also includes tips on how to use S&FO in the classroom. Also, after digging in the S&FO archives, I found an issue on feminist studies of HBO shows like The Sopranos. I've used Sex and the City in the classroom before, and may use these pieces when I teach it again.On the sports front, there's also an interesting piece in The Baltimore Sun about rookie players trying to make themselves at home in a new area that ties home-buying to maturation, becoming a man, and the American dream. How many other aspects of team life are managed with this in mind, and might this be a reaction to the wild stories of NFL players past?
The New York Times poses another question: should we encourage young athletes to put their sports careers ahead of school? It's an issue that's plagued college athletes in recent years, but now seems to have trickled down into high school.
How do you teach about sports?
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