Tucker Center responds to Warrior Girls
The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport has created a blog to respond to Michael Sokolove's book, Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women’s Sport, which was released in 2008 along with a companion article that appeared in the May 11 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
The premise of the book asserts that “[the] immutable facts of anatomy and physiology� cause girls to incur significantly more sport injuries (e.g., ACL tears, concussions) than their male counterparts, resulting in what Sokolove terms a female “injury epidemic.� As a response to the underlying premise (and purported facts) of Warrior Girls, the Tucker Center felt it necessary to provide a scholarly critique from relevant academic disciplines, which included in its 2008 Fall Newsletter.
The Tucker Center's blog, "Reacting to Warrior Girls," also contains those perspectives and invites comments and responses from the public.