Research Catalog

A locker room of her own : celebrity, sexuality, and female athletes / edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen.

Title
A locker room of her own : celebrity, sexuality, and female athletes / edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance GV697.A1 L62 2013Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Ogden, David C.
  • Rosen, Joel Nathan, 1961-
Description
xxiv, 209 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation, and the similar qualities ancillary to gender bear special exploration in how they impact an athlete's story. Central to this volume is the contention that women in their role as inherent outsiders are placed in a unique position even more complicated than the usual experiences of inequality and discord associated with race and sports. The contributors explore and critique.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Lesbian athletes > United States > Biography
  • Public opinion > United States
  • Women athletes > Sexual behavior > United States
  • Women athletes > United States > Biography
  • Women athletes > United States > Public opinion
  • Women athletes > United States > Sexual behavior
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: engaging contested terrain / David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen -- Folklore and fairy tales: Babe Didrikson Zaharias revealed / Martha Reid -- "Take me out to the bellegame": how the AAGPBL gained and maintained its highly respected reputation / Kimberley Young -- The woman who should be king: the simplification of life and career of Billie Jean King / Elizabeth O'Connell -- Venus and Serena Williams: traversing the barriers of the country club world / Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery -- Marion Jones: equity through infamy / Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen -- Paired heroines: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on the global stage / Kathleen A. Bishop -- "Raindrops on a window": race and sex and the framing of the Sheryl Swoopes narrative / Lisa Doris Alexander -- Florence Griffith Joyner: sexual politician in a unitard / Yvonne D. Sims -- Racing into the storm: Roberta Gibb, Kathrine Switzer, and women's marathoning / Oren Renick and Lea Robin Velez -- Go mama! Branded by beauty: how Danica Patrick swooned her way into sponsorship / Lisa R. Neilson.
ISBN
  • 9781617038136 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 161703813X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781617038143 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012050121
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library