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Coming On Strong

Coming On Strong

Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport

by Susan K Cahn

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

26 black and white photographs

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9780252097522
Published: February 2015

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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.

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Preface

Introduction

1. The New Type of Atheltic Girl

2. Grass-Roots Growth and Sexual Sensation in the Flapper Era

3. Games of Strife: The Battle over Women's Competitive Sport

4. Order on the Court: The Campaign to Suppress Women's Basketball

5. "Cinderellas" of Sport: Black Women in Track and Field

6. No Freaks, No Amazons, No Boyish Bobs: The All-Merican Girls Baseball League

7. Beauty and the BUtch: The "Mannish" Athlete and the Lesbian Threat

8. "Play It, Don't Say It": Lesbian Identity and Community in Women's Sport

9. Women Competing/Gender Contested

10. You've Come a Long Way, Maybe: A "Revolution" in Women's Sport?

Epilogue. "Are We There Yet?": The Paradox of Progress

Notes

Index

Susan K. Cahn is a professor of history at the University of Buffalo. She is author of Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age and co-editor of Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader.

"Coming on Strong has long been the go-to book for the history of women in sport. Now it moves boldly into the twenty-first century. Assessing the enormous changes that have reshaped the sports landscape since the 1970s, it reminds us that the playing field is still far from level and challenges us to make the ongoing quest for gender equity in sport part of the larger struggle for social change."

--Susan Ware, author of Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports