Bibliograph

Bloomer girls, women baseball pioneers, Debra A. Shattuck

Type

Label

Bloomer girls, women baseball pioneers, Debra A. Shattuck

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bloomer girls

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945624959

Responsibility statement

Debra A. Shattuck

Sub title

women baseball pioneers

Summary

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. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities, they 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

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Creating a National Pastime -- 1865-1879: Contesting a National Pastime -- 1865-1879: Commodifying a National Pastime -- The 1880s: Molding Manly Men and Disappearing Women -- The 1890s: New Women, Bloomer Girls, and the Old Ball Game -- Conclusion

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