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Bloomer Girls

Women Baseball Pioneers

af Debra A Shattuck

Bog, Hardback, Engelsk, 2017

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 baseb... (Læs mere)

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • IndbindingHardback
  • ISBN9780252040375
  • Udgivet18/01/2017
  • Udgivet afUniversity of Illinois Press
  • Længde328 sider
  • ForfatterDebra A Shattuck
  • GenreHistorie og samfund