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Gender & Sport

Course #: SL 331, Class #: 4474, Section #: 01

Description

This course explores the history and contemporary role of gender, sex, and sexism in sporting spaces. Significant sporting events along with political and sociocultural shifts in society will be examined using gender-based theoretical frameworks. Students will identify the ways in which and specific conditions when sport reinforces, resists, and/or reflects dominant gender ideologies.

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