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Incorrect Athlete, Incorrect Woman: Ioc Gender Regulations And The Boundaries Of Womanhood In Professional Sports, Sabeehah Ravat

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Professional sports are a cornerstone of mainstream capitalist society, a site where issuesof race, class, gender, nation, and religion amongst others are produced, contested, and negotiated. In particular, gender regulation policies serve to delineate the acceptable boundaries of racialised gender and create sanctioned opportunities to surveil transgressive bodies. In this thesis, I posit that professional sports rely on and protect uniformity of gender experience to regulate and exclude trans* and intersex participation and, furthermore, that gender regulation policies delineate the boundaries of gender and particularly womanhood in a way that further marginalises nonbinary athletes. Using critical discourse analysis, a methodology …

Ms. Margaret T. Jones

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Margaret_T_Jones.pdf - Funeral program for Ms. Margaret T. Jones

Adapting Tolkien (2021), Edited By Will Sherwood, Douglas C. Kane

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by Douglas C. Kane of Adapting Tolkien (2021), edited by Will Sherwood

Resilience, Paul Weidknecht

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

A Way Of Seeing, Wally Swist

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Blue Heron Morning, Laura Sweeney

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

The Poem That Hibernates In The Hills Above My Cabin, John E. Smelcer

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Roses, Mary Oliver

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Path, Midge Goldberg

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

What I Know About Death And Resurrection (For K.A. Hayes), Todd Davis

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

The Poem You're Carrying With You, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

The Swift River, Francis Blessington

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

A Peak Ahead: Commitment, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Samuel F. Pryor, III, former Appalachian Mountain Club board president.

Books Of Note

Appalachia

Maia Rauschenberg’s essay, “The Mom List: Books straight out of the box,” discusses Wild by Cheryl Strayed, The Emerald Mile by Ken Fedarko, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, and others. Reviews of The Geology of New Hampshire’s White Mountains by J. Dykstra Eusden et al. Along the Appalachian Trail: New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut by Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Denali’s Howl by Andy Hall. Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack. The Land Breakers by John Ehle. Hanging On: A Life Inside British Climbing’s Golden Age by Martin Boysen. …

News And Notes

Appalachia

The Appalachian Mountain Club, with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, protects Maine’s Baker Mountain. AMC will open a program center in New York’s Harriman State Park. Voluntary New Hampshire “HikeSafe” cards are available. Clay B. Cook narrates a trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. John Fox reports conservation efforts in the Hudson Highlands of New York and New Jersey.

Alpina

Appalachia

Denali’s 2014 season: 1,204 attempted the highest peak in North America in 2014. Six out of twelve who tried Mount Foraker reached the top. In the Nepal Himalaya’s post-monsoon 2013 season, 180 expeditions attempted 35 mountains; 260 team members summited with the aid of 185 hired supporters. An avalanche on Manaslu killed eleven. Five died: two on Baruntse and three on Himlung. Swiss climber Ueli Steck pioneered a new south-face route on Annapurna; two French climbers followed a few weeks later and were evacuated afterwards. In pre-monsoon 2014, an April 18 avalanche on Mount Everest killed sixteen Nepalese, mostly ethnic …

Accidents

Appalachia

Analysis by Sandy Stott of summer/fall 2014 accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: four women get lost after sunset on Mount Watatic in Massachusetts. A man slips on the Falling Waters Trail and is carried out. Exhausted hikers on Mount Lafayette are assisted to Greenleaf Hut. New walkers who summit late on Mount Washington ask tourists for help and get in trouble walking down the Cog Railway. Two parties struggle after rock-climbing Cannon Cliff. A couple returning to the White Mountains after years cannot make time going down the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail. On Mount Major, 37 people get …

Letters

Appalachia

A reader asks if a school group from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania should have been charged for its January 2014 rescue on Mount Washington. W. Kent Olson clarifies that the frontispiece photo of Philip Levin in Winter/Spring 2010 is a photo of technical climbing, not skiing. A retired earth sciences professor challenges discussion of dams’ effects on the Colorado River in an article in Winter/Spring 2015. Douglass Teschner shares a tale of the late New Hampshire hiker Chris Goetze.

Outage: An Adventure In Situ, Learning To Fear Storms In A More Funadmental Way Than Before, W. D. Wetherell

Appalachia

Writer W.D. Wetherell lives in west central New Hampshire and has noticed that hundred-year storms have become more frequent. This story tells of a wretched night in the house experiencing climate change’s tempests.

The Big One: After Altitude Sickness Thwarts Her Mother, A Hiker Forges Alone Up Mount Whitney, Jia H. Jung

Appalachia

A grueling hike up the highest point in the lower 48 states, in Sequoia National Park, energizes writer Jia H. Jung.

Where The Trail Ends: A Story Of Losing A Friend And Finding A Mountain, Wendy Ungar

Appalachia

Wendy Ungar honors her late friend Jane Neale with the story of their bushwhack in 1995 up then-trailless Lookout Mountain, in the Adirondacks.

Rehabilitation With Cooper, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A golden retriever with a chaotic past learns to follow writer Elissa Ely up mountains, ending his solitude and hers.

Channeling Myron Avery: Following A 1929 Ramble In Maine, William Geller, Jim Logan

Appalachia

William Geller and Jim Logan go back in time on Katahdin, following a route early trail blazer Avery took in the area of South Traveler and Traveler Gap in Baxter State Park.

What Happened To The Thoreau Spring Plaque? The Story Of A Maine Landmark's Two Names, Howard R. Whitcomb

Appalachia

Thoreau Spring lies at the convergence of two trails high on Katahdin, in Maine. Howard R. Whitcomb tells the story of the spring’s two names and vandalism of a plaque that marked it.

Emerson And The Environment: The Beginnings Of American Nationalism, Michael Popejoy

Appalachia

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been known as a transcendentalist and idealist, but he left no shortage of footprints on the landscape and also thought and wrote extensively about the natural world. Michael Popejoy examines Emerson’s “unified philosophy of nature.”

Master Of Path Grading: An Appreciation Of J. Rayner Edmands, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside’s profile and history of the engineer who spent twenty years making graded trails that followed the land’s contours in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: Edmands Path, Randolph Path, Gulfside Trail, Westside Trail, Valley Way, and others; the work may have hastened his death at 60.

The Rusty Pitons: In New Jersey, Evidence Of Rock Climbing 75 Years Ago, John Anderson

Appalachia

John Anderson, a longtime climber, traces the signs of technical climbers on New Jersey’s cliffs in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He shares evidence that Fritz Wiessner may have pioneered routes, and the Tenth Mountain Division used the rock for training. Routes scale Windbeam, Kanouse, Green Pond, and Copperas Mountains.

The Long Way Home: When We Can't Go, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside’s column tells the story of her friend, Dan, whose age and medical problems had prevented him from going to his beloved wilderness landscape, the Second College Grant in New Hampshire.