Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport.

Abstract

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 is women's sport?.