From Sidelines to Center Stage: The Development of Collegiate Competitive Cheer

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dc.contributor.advisorSchultz, Jamieen_US
dc.contributor.authorOlson, Sarah Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentKinesiologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-07T05:31:04Z
dc.date.available2008-08-07T05:31:04Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-05en_US
dc.description.abstractCheerleading has undergone a number of significant transformations since its nineteenth century, collegiate, male-dominated roots. Tracing its genealogy through the twenty-first century, one finds a unique set of co-mingled processes including institutionalization, feminization, commercialization, sexualization, and sportization. In this project, I seek to understand competitive cheerleading's current transition in the athletic community. In the past four years the University of Maryland and the University of Oregon have created varsity women's competitive cheer teams and their decision to recognize competitive cheer as a sanctioned sport has caused much debate. While many of those within the cheer community push for its varsitization, others from both inside competitive cheer and the larger women's athletic community dispute its status as an organized sport. In this project I will analyze why competitive cheer is making this transition at this historical moment and how Title IX has propelled this process.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8325
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcheerleadingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsporten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTitle IXen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledvarsitizationen_US
dc.titleFrom Sidelines to Center Stage: The Development of Collegiate Competitive Cheeren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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