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Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport
- Title
- Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport / Susan K. Cahn.
- Author
- Cahn, Susan K.
- Publication
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995, ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV709 .C34 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 358 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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?
- ISBN
- 0674144341
- OCLC
- ocm33323850
- SCSB-5264291
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries