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The Only Dance in Iowa: A History of Six-Player Girls' Basketball

The Only Dance in Iowa: A History of Six-Player Girls' Basketball


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Iowa six-player girls' basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 percent of the girls in the state. The state tournament was so popular - regularly drawing fifteen thousand fans, more than the boys' tourney - that officials even declined a lucrative broadcasting offer from ABC's Wide World of Sports rather than forfeit the Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union's control of the game. "The Only Dance in Iowa" chronicles the one-hundred-year history of this Iowa tradition, long a symbol of the state's independence and the people's rural pride. Max McElwain shows how, well before the passage of Title IX in 1972, Iowa six-player girls' basketball was, as Sports Illustrated gushed, "a utopia for girls' athletics." He also demonstrates how, ironically enough, the fallout from Title IX in many ways led to six-girl basketball's demise. Through interviews, careful ethnography, and detailed historical analysis, McElwain exposes the intricate political, sociological, and historical dynamics of this cultural phenomenon. His book reveals how six-girl basketball, flourishing with the passionate support of Iowa's small towns, school districts, and media, came to represent the state's strong traditional beliefs and the public school system's determination to maintain its identity in the face of national educational trends. "The Only Dance in Iowa" is as much a study of this disappearing culture as of the game it claimed as its own.

About the Author :
Max McElwain, an assistant professor of communication arts at Wayne State College, is a former sportswriter for several Midwestern newspapers.

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"This book has done the impossible: it's made me nostalgic for six-girl basketball, which, for me, is right next door to developing a desperate yearning to hear Lawrence Welk again. Reading it made me wish I'd been a girls' basketball fan, which is more than watching a game ever did. Also, Mr. McElwain writes well, which never hurts."—Donald Kaul, author of The End of the World as We Know It "Worthwhile for basketball fans and for those interested in sociological aspects of sports like gender and community relationships."—Keith Cannon, Sports Literature Association


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803282995
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 265
  • Sub Title: A History of Six-Player Girls' Basketball
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0803282990
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 265
  • Weight: 386 gr


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