Buying In: Big-Time Women's College Basketball and the Future of College Sports - Paperback

by Aaron L. Miller (Author)

Buying In: Big-Time Women's College Basketball and the Future of College Sports juxtaposes the rise of women's college sports with the historical transformations that set the stage for contemporary big-time college sports. Aaron Miller draws on positive psychology to create a new framework he calls "positive anthropology." He uses this lens to highlight the accomplishments of women's college basketball teams and engages with college athlete exploitation, pay-for-play, and other contemporaneous issues that affect both women's and men's teams, though women's teams are often excluded from the popular conversation. With insights drawn from - and applicable to - a wide range of scholarly fields in the humanistic social sciences, this book will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers and educators working in the fields of sports studies, gender studies, education, sociology, history, and anthropology, as well as anyone interested in the future of big-time college sport and higher education. This book poses and answers the question: "How can scholars help envision a brighter future for all college athletes, male and female?"

Author Biography

Aaron L. Miller, PhD is a lecturer in the Departments of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay and at St. Mary's College of California, the author of Discourses of Discipline, and a business culture consultant who has worked for several professional and national sports organizations, as well as Tesla Motors, Inc. He is also the host of "The Power of Sports" Podcast, which is available on Apple Podcasts or via his website: www.aaronlmiller.com.