Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

Grundy, Pamela; Shackelford, Susan L.; Rayl, Susan J.

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“…That said, the two films miss the opportunity to call attention to the fact that the barriers Summitt and the 1999 team encountered prevail across women's sports. Pat XO (Lax & Winter, 2013) provides snippets of information about the status of women's basketball in U.S. society, but the film's reliance on amateur footage without a narrator limits its potential to situate Summitt's career in relation to changes in women's sport such as NCAA sponsorship, television contracts for women's basketball, and the decline of women in coaching (Grundy & Shackelford, 2007). In a similar fashion, The 99ers briefly recounts moments of growth in girls' and women's soccer, but does not go far enough to note that women's professional teams have struggled to stay alive in the United States, nor does the film suggest why the sport did not have a World Cup until the early 1990s (Markovits & Hellerman, 2003).…”

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“Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series

Antunovic

Linden

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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In 2013, ESPN launched a series of documentaries to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX. The Nine for IX documentaries tell stories of successful women in sport and tackle pertinent gender- and sex-related issues, promising to teach popular audiences about the untold histories of women’s sport. Because of the series’ place in ESPN’s marketing efforts to reach women, we consider the series as ideological work through which women’s sport history is constructed. Drawing on feminist sport scholarship, we argue that the Nine for IX films fall short of their promised socially conscious and educational potential. Instead of interrogating broader webs of power, the series overwhelmingly relies upon individualized, depoliticized, and postfeminist narratives that relegate efforts toward gender equality to the past. The series is, thus, a reflection of ESPN’s larger problems with representations of women’s sport.

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“Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series

Antunovic

Linden

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…Indeed, Berenson’s new game did not require women to step very far outside the bounds of accepted feminine fashion standards of the time. Wearing either ‘bloomers’, an early version of women’s gym clothes, or long skirts and shirts, players were ‘nothing if not sticklers to the strictest sense of modesty’ (Grundy, 2001, as cited in Grundy and Shackelford, 2005: 29).…”

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‘We wear dresses, we look pretty’: The feminization and heterosexualization of netball spaces and bodies

Marfell

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Since its introduction in New Zealand during the early 20th century, netball has been considered ‘unambiguously for women’ and it continues to represent one of the few team sport environments not characterized by the interests and participation of men. Yet, despite a long history as the ‘good game for girls’, there is an ongoing and complex relationship between netball and heteronormative femininity in New Zealand that has gone largely unexplored among contemporary studies of sport. In this paper, I take inspiration from French philosopher and social theorist Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space in order to examine this relationship, and particularly the geography of social relations in netball. Drawing upon insights obtained via historical and media analysis, observations and interviews with 16 women players, I demonstrate how netball is (re)produced as feminized and heterosexualized space, and thus, how this sport works to inscribe women’s moving bodies with a dominant, normative and culturally valued version of femininity. To conclude, I discuss how the findings of this paper and Lefebvre’s spatial theory may be useful for thinking further about the gendered nature of this sport and women’s everyday lived experiences.

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“…9 The structure of women's professional basketball in the U.S. is quite different from the NBA. See Anthony, Caudill, & Mixon (2012), Edelman and Harrison (2010) and Grundy and Shackelford (2007) for more on women's professional basketball in the U.S. 10 Among the total 442 observations, 148 games were not on television during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. 11 The broadcast information was obtained from the WNBA's official website.…”

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Television Coverage and Outcome Uncertainty in Sports: Empirical Evidence from the NBA and WNBA. [Cobertura televisiva e incertidumbre en los resultados deportivos: Evidencia empírica en la NBA y la WNBA].

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Hilsman

Caudill

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Rev. int. cienc. deporte

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In an important paper, Price, Remer, & Stone (2012) introduce one manifestation of referee bias called "close" bias -the idea being that because close games are more valuable, referees might officiate to keep games close. Using 990 observations from the 2011-12 National Basketball Association (NBA) season and 442 observations from the 2010 and 2011 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) seasons, we test conceptual models of the impact of television coverage on close bias. Our empirical results indicate that the absolute score differential is about two points less for nationally televised NBA games and about three points less for nationally televised WNBA games, even after accounting for differences in team strength. Our results confirm and extend the earlier findings of Price, Remer, & Stone (2012).Key words: close bias; television coverage, sports economics; referee bias; professional basketball. En un importante artículo, Price, Remer y Stone (2012) introducen una manifestación del sesgo arbitral llamada sesgo de "proximidad", el cual se refiere a que, dado que los partidos con marcadores ajustados son más valiosos, los árbitros podrían actuar intencionadamente para mantenerlos así. En nuestro estudio, y tras el análisis de 990 partidos de baloncesto de la temporada 2011-12 en la NBA, y de 442 partidos de las temporadas 2010 y 2011 en la WNBA, testamos varios modelos conceptuales sobre el impacto de la cobertura televisiva sobre el sesgo de proximidad. Los resultados indican que la diferencia absoluta en el marcador entre los equipos es alrededor de dos puntos menor para los partidos televisados a nivel nacional en la NBA, y sobre tres puntos menor para la WNBA, considerando las diferencias de potencial entre los equipos. De este modo, nuestros resultados confirman y extienden los hallazgos de Price, Remer y Stone (2012). A b s t r a c tPalabras clave: sesgo de proximidad; cobertura televisiva; economía del deporte; sesgo arbitral; baloncesto profesional. R e s u m e n

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Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

Cited by 8 publications

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“Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series

“Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series

‘We wear dresses, we look pretty’: The feminization and heterosexualization of netball spaces and bodies

Television Coverage and Outcome Uncertainty in Sports: Empirical Evidence from the NBA and WNBA. [Cobertura televisiva e incertidumbre en los resultados deportivos: Evidencia empírica en la NBA y la WNBA].

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