| Description |
xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
My journey home -- Sport : where men are men and women are trespassers -- Damaged mothers, muscle molls, mannish lesbians, and predatory dykes : 100 years of scaring women out of sport -- Leering, leching, and low down : demonizing lesbians in sport -- Full court press : defending women's sport against the lesbian boogeywoman -- Life in the shadow of the lesbian boogeywoman : the climate for lesbians in sport -- We prey, they pray? : lesbians and evangelical Christians in sport -- The culture of the closet : identity-management strategies of lesbian college coaches and athletes -- Unplayable lies : lesbians in sport choosing truth -- Love and community in the locker room : double trouble or double standards? -- Opening minds, opening closet doors : transforming women's sport. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-239) and index. |
| Subject |
Lesbian athletes.
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Homophobia in sports.
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| ISBN |
088011729X |
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