| Edition |
First Harvard University Press paperback edition. |
| Description |
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-349) 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 of the court: the campaign to suppress women's basketball -- "Cinderallas" 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 sports -- Women competing/gender contested -- You've come a long way, maybe: a 'revolution' in women's sport? |
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Sports for women -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex discrimination against women -- History -- 20th century.
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Gender identity.
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Gender Identity.
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Prejudice.
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Sports -- history.
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Women -- history.
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| ISBN |
0674144341 |
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