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?
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."--OverDrive content reserve
Notes
First edition title: Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport
