Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hymen, Sports Illustrated, Male Gaze
3 Jan 2016
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O easy to equate strength with men and the opposite with women. Increasing women"s sports changes that landscape and dichotomy women: sport and cultural meaning challenging it by having muscular. Assumption of masculinity and sport is that men own sport. Rules were not codified until the 19th century vaguely. Lecture notes: november 10th popular media and female athletes. Provided no opportunities for this nonexistent. Not able to move in freedom (even young girls!) The longest competitve distance for men was 43 km vs for women it was thr 1500 mtr run. 14 yol and it madde it problematic for others. Barriers to that was surprising to girls see the unfairness. There"s no more the question of if women can participate. Impact girls feel a sense of entitlement to sports in sports but rather how and to what extent their participation looks like. Interpretation of the laws has been very weird.
