Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Olson was attempting to conduct interviews in the team's locker room when several naked players confronted and taunted her. She was also castigated by the media and general public for her insistence on appropriate punishment of the players as well as the management that supported and even encouraged their behavior. Olson's status as a supposed looker gave her the power of approval or disapproval of male athletes, unusual for any woman in the privileged world of men's professional athletics.
Signs is a prestigious, scholarly feminist journal.
The Disch and Kane article is the first one solely focused on the issue of sports and gender ever to appear in the journal. For further information concerning this or related publications, contact the Center. I came to live out loud. Dr. Mariah Burton Nelson Nelson acknowledged that many young women are taught to hide their talents and gifts, to stand not quite so tall as they might or to state their opinions softly or not at all. The resulting constriction, Nelson said, is the figurative equivalent of the girdle worn by women in the early part of this century.