2011-2012 University Catalog 
  
2011-2012 University Catalog

HIST 343 - Gender and Modern American Sport

Credits: 3 (NR)
Examines the history of the gendering of U.S. sport from the late nineteenth century to the present. Explores how masculinity and American sport became wedded in the nineteenth century; women athletes’ efforts to compete against the backdrop of changing American attitudes toward gender, femininity, and sexuality; and contemporary gender and sport issues.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3