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Author Cahn, Susan K.

Title Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport / Susan K. Cahn.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  796.082 C132C    Check Shelf
Edition Second edition.
Description xiii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note First edition title: Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport.
"First Illinois paperback, 2015"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The new type of athletic girl -- Grass-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.
Summary Overview: Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack.
Subject Sports for women -- History -- 20th century.
Sex discrimination against women -- History -- 20th century.
Gender identity.
Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
Sex discrimination against women. (OCoLC)fst01114376
Sports for women. (OCoLC)fst01130649
Frauensport. (DE-588)4018231-9
Sport. (DE-588)4056366-2
Diskriminierung. (DE-588)4012472-1
Sexismus. (DE-588)4116483-0
Geschlechtsidentität. (DE-588)4181116-1
Frau. (DE-588)4018202-2
Sport -- historia -- genus -- kvinnouppfattning -- Förenta staterna -- 1900-talet -- 2000-talet.
Könssegrering -- sexism -- rasism -- könsdiskriminerng.
Lesbianism.
Afro-amerikanskor.
Sports -- History -- gender -- views of women -- United States -- 20th century -- 21st century.
Gender segregation -- sexism -- racism -- sex discrimination.
Lesbianism.
African American women.
Damidrott -- historia -- genusaspekter.
Könsdiskriminering.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780252080647 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper)
0252080645 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper)
9780252039553 (hd.)
0252039556 (hd.)
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