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Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
by Debra A. Shattuck
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0252081862
- ISBN 13
- 9780252081866
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Paperback / softback. New. 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 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.
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- Title
- Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
- Author
- Debra A. Shattuck
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0252081862
- ISBN 13
- 9780252081866
- Publisher
- University Of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Il, Usa
- This edition first published
- 2013
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