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Beyond bend it like Beckham : the global phenomenon of women's soccer / Timothy F. Grainey ; foreword by Brittany Timko.
- Title
- Beyond bend it like Beckham : the global phenomenon of women's soccer / Timothy F. Grainey ; foreword by Brittany Timko.
- Author
- Grainey, Timothy F.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 279 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Rapid growth in the United States. Title IX, soccer moms, and pioneering players -- The U.S. National Team, 1996-1999: "Welcome to our party" -- Professional women's soccer and the WUSA: "The best three years of my life" -- Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) -- Pt. 2. Challenges in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The state of the game in the Middle East -- Challenges and successes in Africa -- Latin America: fighting machismo attitudes -- Women athletes: objects versus wholesome role models -- Pt. i. Building leagues and national team programs. Ancestral roots: leveraging the diaspora to build the game abroad -- National leagues around the world -- Overcoming a fifty-year ban in England -- Canada's youthful road to success -- Conclusion: "The future of football is feminine".
- ISBN
- 9780803234703 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803234708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780803240360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803240368 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011047387
- OCLC
- 759915533
- SCSB-11746551
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library