Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing a series of lectures pertaining to philosophy and epistemology. The intellectual contributions of various philosophers are included.

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing a series of lectures pertaining to philosophy and epistemology. The intellectual contributions of various philosophers are included, as well as study aids and handouts containing short biographies and diagrams of their ideas.

Virginia Woolf makes clear in her book A Room of One's Own that "[A] woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write…." This statement extends to all endeavors by women, including sport. The gap between men and women's sports is not bridged by monetary compensation. The domination of women exists in conceptual ideals and how those are expressed through our roles in this world. I use Val Plumwood's ecological feminist theory to expose the blatant masculinity imposed upon sport. I shall argue that sport is an arena of constant struggle over basic social conceptions of men and women. My endeavor is to implore traditionally masculine territory, and show sport as the domain of no single gender, but a field of simplicity and cooperation.