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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.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 328 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | University of Illinois Press |
Utgivningsdatum | 2017-01-18 |
ISBN | 9780252081866 |
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- Häftad, 328, Engelska, University of Illinois Press, 2017-01-18, 9780252081866
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Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 328
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag University of Illinois Press
- Utgivningsdatum 2017-01-18
- ISBN 9780252081866