... between sport and the rest of life are not made, but the sexuality issue surfaces and re-surfaces all to often in contemporary society. Sport seen as a masculine domain, barriers to women's sport participation and misleading media influences are all factors which have led to the criticism of women's participation in cricket and football and more importantly exposed the underlying concerns that they are sports which attract lesbians. The bonding of males through sport has been so strong that the culture of sport has excluded women. The traditional polarization of sex roles has produced in our society two different kinds of human beings-Woman and men who are expected to play different roles, hold different attitudes, espouse different values and express different feelings. "Women are to assume roles in the private sphere as wife and mother and men are expected to assume roles in the public sphere as workers and citizens. Among ...

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