When women rule the court : gender, race, and Japanese American basketball /
"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...
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
2017.
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| coleção: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1q1cqp2 |
Sumário:
- Series; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction. "This Is What We Do"; Chapter 1. "Everybody Plays". The Inclusiveness of J-League Basketball; Chapter 2. "In JA Circ les, Girls and Boys Are on Equal Footing" The (Re)negotiation of Gender in J- League Basketball; Chapter 3. "Women Who Took Sports beyond Play". How Japanese American Women's Basketball Went to College; Chapter 4. "We're Turning Them into Stars!". The Japanese American Female Basketball Player as Icon; Chapter 5. "You Play Basketball?". Ruling the Court as an Unexpected Athlete
- Chapter 6. Conclusion. "It's a Testament of What the Japanese Leagues Can Do for Young Girls"Acknowledgments; Methodological Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author