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Girl Wrestler
URL: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/girlwrestler/

Description:
Companion website to this documentary that "follows a year in the life of Tara Neal, a Texas teenager who rocks the establishment by insisting that girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat." Special features cover Title IX, "cutting weight" (rapid weight reduction, popular among amateur wrestlers), and a history of women in wrestling. From Independent Lens.

LII Topics: Girls, Sports, Sports & Athletics, Women, Wrestling & Sumo

Publisher:
Independent Television Service (ITVS)

LII Database Information:
Record 25523 created by Jennifer English on 02/20/2008
Last modification on 02/21/2008
Published: 02/27/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25523

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