Bloomer Girls
Subtitle: Women Baseball Pioneers
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Jan 18, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780252081866
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers (Sport and Society)