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Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport
- Title
- Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport / Susan K. Cahn.
- Author
- Cahn, Susan K.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- First edition title: Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport.
- "First Illinois paperback, 2015"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2135
- ISBN
- 9780252039553
- 0252039556
- 9780252080647
- 0252080645
- LCCN
- 2014035978
- OCLC
- 890793065
- Author
- Cahn, Susan K., author.
- Title
- Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport / Susan K. Cahn.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2135