Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers / Debra A. Shattuck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shattuck, Debra A., author.

Series:

Sport and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women baseball players--United States.

Women baseball players.

Women baseball players--United States--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Summary:

Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities, they nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity.

Contents:

Introduction

Creating a National Pastime

1865-1879: Contesting a National Pastime

1865-1879: Commodifying a National Pastime

The 1880s: Molding Manly Men and Disappearing Women

The 1890s: New Women, Bloomer Girls, and the Old Ball Game

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shattuck, Debra A., author. Bloomer girls.

ISBN:

9780252040375

0252040376

9780252081866

0252081862

OCLC:

945624959