PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Canada Women'S National Soccer Team, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs
5 Jun 2018
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PSY3121A Dr. Mary-Theresa Howard
School 28.05.18
Movie: Daring to Compete (1999)
• Women have only recently be accepted as true athletes
• Women struggled not to be equal as men, but to just compete
• Women expected to be delicate and bound to the home; not to go beyond the home
• Men were not happy with the bicycle – seat was too hard for a woman (worse than horse saddle)
• Education and physical exercise were outside of what a women should do
• Woes asketall used to be no dribbling, no physical contact, no pushing ball out of bounds
• Plays days – women from different school/teams play with (not against) each other
o No ie, just a da to pla togethe ad soialize; ou dot epeset the shool
• Suzanne – first star tennis player, looked like she was performing dance on the tennis court
• Gertude – female swimmer who swam for 14 hrs + over 30 miles
• Lady like exercises were sports that women can participate in if they can wear a skirt
o Tennis, running, archery, golf
• Populait of oes tak ad field populaized spots fo oe
o Fist tie the had oes 00 ae laied oe shouldt ae that fa / oe ee
collapsing after running 800m; women were only allowed to race 100m for 32 yrs
▪ Newspapers claimed 11 women when there were only 9 women in the race, claimed
soe didt fiish the ae, ut the all fiished the ae
• Questioed Bas seualit fo eig e athleti, ol stopped uestioig he seualit he she got
married to a man – her training affected her ability to have children; died as a great athlete
• Jackie Mitchel – first women hired on a baseball team as a pitcher
• WWII revolutionized women in the workforce – men left to war and women occupied more than half the
workforce; also more involved in sports
o Double standard – want women to act like women at all times but play as men
o Whe e ae ak fo a, oes aseall folded, failed to ilude oe of olou /
of prejudice
• Russian women were introduced and dominated Olympic games – big and muscular women
• America restored their pride by having black women participate in track in field
o Blak oe eet teated as oe ad didt id the asulie athleti look
o Look the part of a female but play the part of an athlete – put on lipstick, wipe your sweat before
accepting your medal or taking your picture
• American Athletic Union – the only place white women could play sports
o Scholarships given to women based on 3 Bs – brains, beauty and basketball
• 1964 – ban of racial discrimination in all public places; begin idea of equal rights for women
• myths that women who ran would get big thighs, grow a mustache, uterus would fall out, etc.
o women were not physiologically capable of running more than a mile (no marathons)
• Tennis battle of the sexes Billy Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs; Billy Jean won and created a social change
• Law stated that there should be no discrimination of sex in the participation opportunities in sports and
athletics; same amount of scholarships, practice times, etc.
• Women were accepted as women and atheletes if they were figure skaters or gymnasts
o All other sports, women were questioned of their sexuality, questioned their strength and ability
• 1984 – eaditted oe to joi the oes aatho; accepted women to look physically exhausted
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