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Bloomer Girls
- Women Baseball Pioneers
Engelsk Paperback
Bloomer Girls
- Women Baseball Pioneers
Engelsk Paperback

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Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. 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 even found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them 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. Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9780252081866
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252081862
Udg. Dato:
18 jan 2017
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
157mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
18 jan 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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