GWSS 262 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rubber Band, Ligament, Martina Navratilova
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GWSS 262 – FINAL NOTES PT 2
1) Lecture: Introduction to “Femininities in Sports”
a. Why are female athletes in certain sports assumed to be lesbian until they
prove otherwise?
oWomen who play sports are thought to be more “masculine”
oLesbians are also thought to be more “masculine”
oUnless you portray yourself as being super feminine, people would assume
you’re more “masculine” and therefore interested in women
b. One of the ways female athletes can interrupt assumptions that they are “too
masculine” is by being involved in sports that allow for normative femininity
within them. Name one such sport.
oGymnastics
oCheerleading
oFigure skating
oSynchronized swimming
c. Another way female athletes can interrupt the above assumptions is by
engaging in “visual code switching.” What is visual code switching?
oVisual code switching: switching between ways of communicating
depending on who you are with
Have to be fluent in both to do be able to do it right
2) Rhoden, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
a. Lusia Harris was a remarkable basketball player for many reasons. One
reason is that she was the first woman to be drafted onto an NBA team, the
New Orleans Jazz. Even more notably, she turned down that offer. What
were her two main reasons for not accepting the offer to play on a
professional men’s basketball team?
oThought that the NBA post players were too big and too good
oShe thought it was a publicity stunt
Because she was 6’3 and center
b. Rhoden quotes Tina Sloan Green in this chapter. Green argues that,
“Although Title IX has eliminated gender bias in college sports, the law
might have spawned a greater tilt in racial inequity.” Give two specific
examples from this chapter of how “white women [may] have benefitted
more from Title IX than women of color.”
oAccording to the NCAA, the four fastest-growing women’s sports in the past
fifteen years have been: soccer, rowing, lacrosse, and golf, none of which
have been successful in recruiting large numbers of minorities
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