Frailty Myth Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Name: Frailty Myth Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls
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ISBN: 9780375758157

ISBN-10: 0375758151

ISBN-13: 9780375758157

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Colette Dowling

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In this book, Colette Dowling shows how girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, girls' strength and aerobic powers start to decline, unless they are exercising vigorously.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

The author of numerous books, including The Cinderalla Complex, which has been in print since its 1981 publication. She lives in Woodstock, New York.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Frailty Myth


Before Frailty


Behold the Cult of Invalidism


The Masculinity Crisis


Out of Confinement


Shattering the Menstrual Myth



The Incredible Shrinking Woman


Becoming Feminine: The Gender Effect


Learned Weakness


Throwing Like a Guy: The Mystique of Innate Ability


Comparisons (or, Are We Fated to be Weaker?)


Shrinking Bodies, Shrinking Brains



Getting Them Out of the Doll Corner


Perceived Physical Competence


The Coaching Factor


The Dad Factor


Crossing the Swinging Rope Bridge: Programs for Change



Endangered Bodies


Shrinking Self-Image


Adolescence: The Crisis Years


Entering the War Zone


Double Bind



Can I Play?: The Struggle to Get into the Game


Title IX, or, the Fight for a Physical Education


Suing for the Right to Play


Admission into the Ultimate Game: The Olympics


Winning as We'd Never Imagined


The Abominable Sex Tests


Media, Marketing, and the New Female Contender



Closing the Strength Gap


Men's Fear of Women's Strength


The Myth of the "Mannish" Woman


New Ways of Assessing Performance


The Backlash


The Estrogen Effect


The New Physical Woman


Going the Distance



Physical Equality: The Final Stage


Physical Assault: Keeping Women Down


Trauma: Freud's Little Detour


Dangerous Lessons in Passive Resistance


Fighting Back


Unlearning Passivity


Epilogue


Notes


Index


Reader's Guide