Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- The Concept of Fairness: The Veronica Ivy Case as Example -- The Ideal of Equality -- Equality and Power -- The Ideological Enforcement of Feminist Ideology on Institutions of Higher Education in Sweden -- Gender Equality in Sport: The Right to Take Part -- Gender Equality in Sport: The Right to the Same Privileges -- The Fairness of Equal Pay -- The Problem of Equal Pay -- Equal Pay and Athletes' Interests -- Equal Pay and The Free Market -- Equal Pay Between the Sexes in Sports -- The Status of Women's Football -- Female Attraction -- Protection of the Weaker Sex -- Conclusion: The Problem of Squaring the Circle.

"Competition is a basic fact of life. Life in the modern world, based on rationality, ingenuity, and co-operative skills, makes it easy to forget this and to believe that it no longer applies to human beings. Developments in the western world since the turn of the millennium appear to confirm this perception. Competition, fairness, and equality in sport and society aims to show that this interpretation is wrong. Based on the workings of elite sport, it argues that the fairness and equality agenda, rather than being a manifestation of a mellowing of human nature, is essentially driven by the same innate competitive impulses. What has changed is that, once basic material needs for survival are covered, as is the case in the developed world, people continue to compete in other arenas attempting to improve their position in the human hierarchies and win status and recognition"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Added to collection customer.56279.3