Stolen bases : why American girls don't play baseball / Jennifer Ring.

Author/creator Ring, Jennifer, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Prologue : entitlement and its absence -- Introduction : a quick and dirty history of baseball -- The girls' game -- A.G. Spalding and America's needs -- Enter softball -- How baseball became manly and White -- American womanhood and athletics -- Cricket -- Stolen bases -- Collegiate women's baseball -- The invisibility of bias -- Epilogue : what does equality look like?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.
LCCN 2008040129
ISBN9780252032820 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252032829 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GV 880.7 .R56 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold