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Book SynopsisHow school-aged girls used the legal system to gain access to contact sports
Trade Review"
Female Gladiators is the first book to examine the legal and social battles that won women the right to participate with men in contact sports."--
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education"A compelling study. . . . A sound, grounded, meticulous, and careful reading of a thorny and heated issue."--
Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature"Professor Fields makes a fresh and excellent contribution to the literature by suggesting that the intensity of opposition to female football and baseball players was not simply--as is conventional wisdom--a somewhat quaint paternalistic protection of the ‘weaker sex,' but rather due to the role of these major sports in promoting the American construct of masculinity and the desire to save these sports as a male ‘preserve' as gender roles are deconstructed."--Stephen F. Ross, Penn State University
