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.
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.
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