A League Of Their Own, Directed By Penny Marshall
Throughout history women have been in constant battle for equal rights and have worked tirelessly to secure the rights for women that we are so grateful to experience today. A big stepping stone for women to show the amount of qualities, work ethic, and independence was brought forward during World War II due to the fact that a lot of the men during this time period were sent into combat and while they were away doing so the women were expected to fill many of these traditionally male jobs and roles. This ties in with what I will be discussing of the historical concepts of gender discrimination with social normalcies and femininity to sports involving women and the correlation of the movie A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall. The
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According to lecture, the definition of play is to voluntarily participate in activity that is considered not “serious” as opposed to games where it is considered an element of competition and always involves a challenge to win (Lemez, 2017). In sports you can assume that it requires both play and game as without one you cannot successfully perform the other. For example, play is a demonstration of skill such as scrimmages, and practices whereas, games display institutional structure and making use of what was performed or practiced in play and executing it in games. How play versus games correlates with the movie A League of Their Own is how the girls started off their baseball careers in the league as if they were there to “play” even though in the players eyes the motive was to do something they enjoyed and see it as an institutionalized structure of a game. However, in the eyes of everyone outside the teams it was seen as nothing more of a joke and volunteers to “play” and pass the time until the men returned. It wasn’t until later on in the movie where fan base started to pick up as they realized these women weren’t the “feminine” housewives they all thought to be yet they were the “feminine” baseball players playing the “game” the way it was designed to play, from sliding, fielding, hitting, to diving for the baseball and all, this brought in a lot of attention for the league. Ultimately, the goal was reached and the women players took the country by a storm and successfully gave a name to women in
According to lecture, the definition of play is to voluntarily participate in activity that is considered not “serious” as opposed to games where it is considered an element of competition and always involves a challenge to win (Lemez, 2017). In sports you can assume that it requires both play and game as without one you cannot successfully perform the other. For example, play is a demonstration of skill such as scrimmages, and practices whereas, games display institutional structure and making use of what was performed or practiced in play and executing it in games. How play versus games correlates with the movie A League of Their Own is how the girls started off their baseball careers in the league as if they were there to “play” even though in the players eyes the motive was to do something they enjoyed and see it as an institutionalized structure of a game. However, in the eyes of everyone outside the teams it was seen as nothing more of a joke and volunteers to “play” and pass the time until the men returned. It wasn’t until later on in the movie where fan base started to pick up as they realized these women weren’t the “feminine” housewives they all thought to be yet they were the “feminine” baseball players playing the “game” the way it was designed to play, from sliding, fielding, hitting, to diving for the baseball and all, this brought in a lot of attention for the league. Ultimately, the goal was reached and the women players took the country by a storm and successfully gave a name to women in