When Women Rule the Court : : Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball / / Nicole Willms.
For nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of Japanese American life. Women's basketball holds a special place in the contemporary scene of highly organized and expansive Japanese American leagues in California, in part because these leagues have produced numerous talen...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) :; 10 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. "This Is What We Do"
- 1. "Everybody Plays": The Inclusiveness of J-L eague Basketball
- 2. "In JA Circles, Girls and Boys Are on Equal Footing": The (Re)negotiation of Gender in J-League Basketball
- 3. "Women Who Took Sports beyond Play": How Japanese American Women's Basketball Went to College
- 4. "We're Turning Them into Stars!" The Japanese American Female Basketball Player as Icon
- 5. "You Play Basketball?" Ruling the Court as an Unexpected Athlete
- 6. Conclusion: "It's a Testament of What the Japanese Leagues Can Do for Young Girls"
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index