Bloomer Girls

Women Baseball Pioneers

Debra A Shattuck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04037-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Debra A. Shattuck is Provost and Assistant Professor of History at John Witherspoon College.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Sport and Society
Zusatzinfo	17 black and white photographs, 7 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-04037-6 / 0252040376
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04037-5 / 9780252040375
Zustand	Neuware