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Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack.

Coming On Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport

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Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In... Read more

    Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Publication Date: 03/03/2015
    ISBN13: 9780252080647, 978-0252080647
    ISBN10: 0252080645

    Number of Pages: 432

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    Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack.

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