TY - JOUR AU - Ilten, Ember Skye PY - 2015/07/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - "Throw like a girl" Challenging and Unpacking Modern Day Gender Norms Within Sport JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/throw-like-a-girl-challenging-and-unpacking-modern SP - AB - Using a recently popular commercial aired during the Super Bowl that challenges traditional gender roles, this learning exercise introduces the concepts of gender norms, while opening up a dialogue about the problematic aspects behind gender prejudice in sport. The exercise spans one fifty-minute class, and can generate much discussion and reflection about how society constructs and maintains gender in dualistic opposition, as well as how gender as a social construction plays out in sport. ER -