Date of Award

Spring 4-20-2012

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Politics and International Relations

First Thesis Reader

Dionne Bensonsmith

Second Thesis Reader

Thomas Kim

Rights Information

© 2012 Rebecca A. Gularte

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Abstract

An examination of the origins of the separation of boys into baseball and girls into softball due to Victorian era ideas about gender, and the current day institutional exclusion through Title IX and culturally constructed notions about the appropriate place of women in the sporting world.



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