A locker room of her own : celebrity, sexuality, and female athletes / David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]Description: xxiv, 209 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781617038136 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 161703813X (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 697 .A1 L62 2013
Contents:
Introduction: Engaging contested terrain / David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen -- Folklore and fairy tales: Babe Didrikson Zaharias revealed / Martha Reid -- "Take me out to the bellegame": how the AAGPBL gained and maintained its highly respected reputation / Kimberley Young -- The woman who should be king: the simplification of life and career of Billie Jean King / Elizabeth O'Connell -- Venus and Serena Williams: traversing the barriers of the country club world / Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery -- Marion Jones: equity through infamy / Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen -- Paired heroines: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on the global stage / Kathleen A. Bishop -- "Raindrops on a window": race and sex and the framing of the Sheryl Swoopes narrative / Lisa Doris Alexander -- Florence Griffith Joyner: sexual politician in a unitard / Yvonne D. Sims -- Racing into the storm: Roberta Gibb, Kathrine Switzer, and women's marathoning / Oren Renick and Lea Robin Velez -- Go mama! Branded by beauty: how Danica Patrick swooned her way into sponsorship / Lisa R. Neilson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Engaging contested terrain / David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen -- Folklore and fairy tales: Babe Didrikson Zaharias revealed / Martha Reid -- "Take me out to the bellegame": how the AAGPBL gained and maintained its highly respected reputation / Kimberley Young -- The woman who should be king: the simplification of life and career of Billie Jean King / Elizabeth O'Connell -- Venus and Serena Williams: traversing the barriers of the country club world / Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery -- Marion Jones: equity through infamy / Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen -- Paired heroines: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on the global stage / Kathleen A. Bishop -- "Raindrops on a window": race and sex and the framing of the Sheryl Swoopes narrative / Lisa Doris Alexander -- Florence Griffith Joyner: sexual politician in a unitard / Yvonne D. Sims -- Racing into the storm: Roberta Gibb, Kathrine Switzer, and women's marathoning / Oren Renick and Lea Robin Velez -- Go mama! Branded by beauty: how Danica Patrick swooned her way into sponsorship / Lisa R. Neilson.

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