TY - BOOK AU - Markovits,Andrei TI - Women in american soccer and european football: different roads to shared glory SN - 9781795354479 U1 - 796.334092 22 PY - 2019/// CY - [Orlando] PB - The Cody and Emma Golden Press KW - Mujeres deportistas KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Estados Unidos KW - Discriminación en los deportes KW - Europa KW - Roles sexuales y deportes N2 - This book highlights the opposite paths that women have traversed in the game of Association Football on both sides of the Atlantic. Whereas the women in North America entered a field that was virtually open for them since men busily covered the playing fields and cultural space of the hegemonic team sports of baseball, football (American and Canadian), basketball and ice hockey; their European counterparts were forced to contest what has arguably been the most male-dominated space in European public life throughout much of the 20th century. Both of these roads harbored immense obstacles. Both entailed challenges of their own that these pioneering women had to overcome. However, spurred by the massively important and popular World Cup tournaments, the last three decades have led to a rapprochement of developments on both sides of the Atlantic by catapulting women's soccer onto hitherto unexpected, maybe even unimaginable heights; Este libro destaca los caminos opuestos que han recorrido las mujeres en el fútbol de clubes en ambos lados del Atlántico. Mientras que las mujeres en América del Norte entraron en un campo que estaba virtualmente abierto para ellas ya que los hombres ocupaban privilegiadamente espacio en el terrenos de juego y en los deportes colectivos hegemónicos como el béisbol, fútbol americano y canadiense, en el baloncesto y en el hockey sobre hielo; sus contrapartes europeas se vieron obligadas a disputar lo que podría decirse que ha sido el espacio más dominado por los hombres en la vida pública europea durante gran parte del siglo XX. Ambos caminos albergaban inmensos obstáculos. Ambos implicaron desafíos propios que estas mujeres pioneras tuvieron que superar ER -