The grass ceiling : on being a woman in sport / Eimear Ryan.
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- 9781844885329 (pbk.) :
- 796.08 23
- GV709
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Main | 796.08 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 11/04/2024 | R17868X0499 |
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796.06 The story of the GAA / | 796.07 Coaching better every season : | 796.07 Coaching better every season : | 796.08 The grass ceiling : | 796.09 Passing the torch : | 796.3 Munster : our road to glory / | 796.3 The Irish Kop / |
What is it like to be a girl, or a woman, in a male-dominated sporting world? If you play on the boys' team, more people pay attention - but you get treated like an alien. When you switch to playing with girls and women, you have to live with a smaller audience, diminished status, and - if you're a professional - lower pay. And what if - as is the case for camogie player Eimear Ryan - the sport that you play has a different name for women than it does for men, despite identical rules? And what if you don't even feel entirely comfortable in an all-female sporting environment because you're shy, bookish, not really one of the girls? In 'The Grass Ceiling', acclaimed novelist Eimear Ryan digs deep into the confluence between gender and sport, and all the questions it throws up about identity, status, competition and self-expression.
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