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Debra A Shattuck - Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers - 9780252040375 - V9780252040375
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Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers

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Description for Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers Hardback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JFSJ1; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
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 ... Read more

Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Sport and Society
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040375
SKU
V9780252040375
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
"This work fills a noteworthy gap in the scholarship and will be of importance to any individual interested in sport, women's history, and gender studies. Recommended."
Choice "It is safe to say that Bloomer Girls may be considered the definitive book on women's baseball in the nineteenth century. Shattuck's research shows on every page, and she masterfully decodes primary sources and ... Read more

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