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Democratic Sports: Men's and Women's College Athletics during the Great Depression (Sport, Culture & Society)
Brad Austin
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Paperback. American public universities suffered tremendous funding cuts during the 1930s, yet they were also responsible for educating increasing numbers of students. Democratic Sports tells the important story of how menAEs and womenAEs college athletic programmes survived, and even thrived, during the most challenging decade of the twentieth century. Series: Sport, culture & society. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JNMN; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
American public universities suffered tremendous funding cuts during the 1930s, yet they were also responsible for educating increasing numbers of students. The mounting financial troubles, coupled with a perceived increase in the number of “radical” student activists, contributed to a general sense of crisis on American college campuses.
University leaders used their athletic programs to combat this crisis and to preserve “traditional” American values and institutions, prescribing different models for men and women. Educators emphasized the competitive nature of men’s athletics, seeking to inculcate male college athletes (and their audiences) with individualistic, masculine values in order to reinforce the ... Read more
American public universities suffered tremendous funding cuts during the 1930s, yet they were also responsible for educating increasing numbers of students. The mounting financial troubles, coupled with a perceived increase in the number of “radical” student activists, contributed to a general sense of crisis on American college campuses.
University leaders used their athletic programs to combat this crisis and to preserve “traditional” American values and institutions, prescribing different models for men and women. Educators emphasized the competitive nature of men’s athletics, seeking to inculcate male college athletes (and their audiences) with individualistic, masculine values in order to reinforce the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Series
Sport, Culture & Society
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557287588
SKU
V9781557287588
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About Brad Austin
Brad Austin is professor of history at Salem State University, USA.
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