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“ellen j staurowsky”

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  • Women and Sport

    Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration

    by Ellen J. Staurowsky ...
    Women and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration focuses on women winning access to the playing field as well as the front office in sport. Readers will gain an understanding of how women have been involved in sport and physical activity, how they have struggled for widespread recognition and legitimacy in the eyes of many, and how they continue to carve out their role in ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes

    An Amateurism That Never Was

    by Richard M. Southall, Mark S. Nagel, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Richard T. Karcher, Joel G. Maxcy ...
    A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athleticsFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sport and the Neoliberal University

    Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

    by Ryan King-White, Henry Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, Neal C. Ternes, Michael D. Giardina, Jaime DeLuca, Callie Batts Maddox, Matthew G. Hawzen, Lauren C. Anderson, Joshua I. Newman0, Ellen J. Staurowsky1, Richard M. Southall2, Crystal Southall3, Oliver Rick4, Adam Beissel5, Jacob J. Bustad6, Ronald L. Mower7 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit Athletes

    An Amateurism That Never Was

    by Richard M. Southall, Mark S. Nagel, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Richard T. Karcher, Joel G. Maxcy ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 20 min

    A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athleticsFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    by Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi, Keith Harrison, Jackson Katz, Kyle Kusz, Carwyn Jones, Mary McDonald, Leanne Norman, Genevieve Rail, Barbara Ravel, Ellen Staurowsky, Cheria Thomas, Sanford S. Williams, Jay Coakley, Angela J. Hattery, C. Richard King, Richard Lapchick, Earl Smith ...
    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Sport

    Edited by Ellen Staurowsky, Algerian Hart ...
    As the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion continues to be of growing importance across all businesses, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Sport provides a comprehensive examination of DEI issues across the sport industry. This text’s emphasis on application and critical thinking will guide students in developing their ability to effectively lead sport organizations of all kinds with vision ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

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  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen ...
    Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Game Over

    How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

    by Dave Zirin ...
    "Enlightening" essays on athletes, activism, and the important role sports plays in our society ( Publishers Weekly).Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy": sports and politics just don't mix. But in truth, some of our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. From the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saturday Millionaires

    How Winning Football Builds Winning Colleges

    by Kristi Dosh ...
    Last year Football Bowl Subdivision college football programs produced over $1 billion in net revenue. Record-breaking television contracts were announced. Despite the enormous revenue, college football is in upheaval. Schools are accused of throwing their academic mission aside to fund their football teams. The media and fans are beating the drum for athletes to be paid. And the conferences are ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education

    How College Sports Undermine College Education

    by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus ...
    Previously published as part of HIGHER EDUCATION?A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. But is it worth it?In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that American college athletics—which originally came into the campus as an innocent form of recreation—have ... Read more

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