Compared to the past few months, October brought less female athlete news– but as students returned to school and Olympic-caliber athletes returned to training, there’s no doubt that women in sports were hard at work. And, in many cases, they are working hard in new contexts. 1) In Massachusetts female high school golfers now have [...]
Today I woke up excited it was Friday– but then I realized I wouldn’t be getting a new episode of Cheer and I had to hit the snooze button to recover. Cheer, which has aired on CMT for the past six weeks, quickly became one of my favorite reality series, warming my normally analytical sociological [...]
This morning I was on NECN’s Morning Show talking about the controversy surrounding the Indian Land Elementary Warrior School Pageant– a child beauty pageant meant to be a fundraiser in South Carolina that was ultimately canceled after parent protests. You can read more of my thoughts on “Parents against pageants” by clicking here. In a [...]
Recent news out of the world of female athletics has been nothing but positive lately. From the success of women in the Summer Olympics to the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX we’ve been very busy focusing on the accomplishments of women athletes. This past month one of the biggest stories about women [...]
They golf, they swim, they dive, and they play soccer. This month’s edition of pint-sized phenoms features some amazing young women performing some incredible feats. 1) The youngest of the bunch is 10-year-old Aisha Saini. While on family vacation in Spain, the Scottish girl played in a soccer tournament. Turns out some scouts from the [...]
Almost 9-months ago, right before my son was born, I blogged about how my work and my husband’s work would impact our parenting. Obviously so much in our lives has changed since then– yet much has remained the same. Various “family business” over the past week captures all of our various interests… and hint at [...]
Today a book review I wrote of the new book Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States, appeared on The Rumpus. This may or may not mean I am the next Cheryl Strayed… This summer my husband and I had Olympics fever. We watched NBC’s tape-delayed broadcast every night and live online coverage of our [...]
Last Friday a feature story I wrote about the Maddy Verst custody trial appeared on Slate’s Double X. You may recall that I also wrote about the now six-year-old Maddy last fall after she appeared on the cover ofPeople. Like many others, including hundreds of pageant moms, I think the TLC series Toddlers & [...]
The XX(X) Olympics were an enormous success for women– especially the Americans. If the US women had been their own country they would have placed fifth in the medal count standings. Even more noteworthy is that 60% of the all the US’ medals came from women and 2/3rds of the American gold medal haul were [...]
If you’re anything like me, you and your family are facing a post-Olympics letdown. I have the perfect solution. No, not starting to play any Olympic sports. As I wrote last week, I’m more of a reader than a athlete. I recommend you and your kids crack open the bindings of some of these recent [...]
