Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport / Susan K. Cahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cahn, Susan K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports for women--History--20th century.

Sports for women.

Sex discrimination against women--History--20th century.

Sex discrimination against women.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Urabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Summary:

Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack.

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-09752-1