Coming on strong gender and sexuality in women's sport

The new type of athletic girlGrass-roots growth and sexual sensation in the Flapper Era -- Games of strife: the battle over women's competitive sport -- Order on the court: the campaign to suppress women's basketball -- "Cinderellas" of sport: black women in track and field -- No...

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1. Verfasser: Cahn, Susan K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Urbana, Ill. u.a. Univ. of Illinois Press 2015
Ausgabe:2d ed.
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Zusammenfassung:The new type of athletic girlGrass-roots growth and sexual sensation in the Flapper Era -- Games of strife: the battle over women's competitive sport -- Order on the court: the campaign to suppress women's basketball -- "Cinderellas" of sport: black women in track and field -- No freaks, no Amazons, no boyish bobs: the All-American Girls Baseball League -- Beauty and the Butch: the "mannish" athlete and the lesbian threat -- "Play it, don't say it": lesbian identity and community in women's sport -- Women competing/gender contested -- You've come a long way, maybe: a "revolution" in women's sport? -- Epilogue. "Are we there yet?" The paradox of progress.
Beschreibung:First edition title: Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport
"First Illinois paperback, 2015"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 395 S.
ISBN:9780252039553
978-0-252-03955-3
9780252080647
978-0-252-08064-7