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Ingeborg Mello: “Two Lives” in Sport
In the course of her long and successful athletic career, track and field champion Ingeborg Mello (1919–2009) was active within politically charged contexts that underscore the use of sport as a means of social exclusion or integration. Born in Berlin, she began as a promising teenage athlete on the Jewish sport scene of National Socialist Germany and finished as one of the finest Argentine athletes of all time. This paper describes Mello's early athletic experience, the circumstances of her departure from the country of her birth and her “second life” as a sporting star in Argentina from the late 1930s until 1974. Having earned fame by reason of her courage and self-control in competition, she scored numerous international and national victories, set several records and represented Argentina at two Olympic Games. Ingeborg Mello overcame adversity to make a fascinating contribution to international sport.
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Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
\"Highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes, from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball in a men's professional league\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Spectacular Leap
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with \"a spectacular leap,\" African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. From the 1920s, when black women athletes were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women's track and field, African American women found sport opened the door to a better life. However, they also discovered that success meant challenging perceptions that many Americans--both black and white--held of them. Through the stories of six athletes--Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee--Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement. Uncovering the various strategies the athletes use to beat back stereotypes, Lansbury explores the fullness of African American women's relationship with sport in the twentieth century.
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Adventurers and athletes
\"From sports stars such as tennis icon Serena Williams to aviators and mountaineers, many women have overcome great hurdles to succeed as athletes and adventurers. These women have made history in their own rights and have paved the way for future generations to do so as well.\"--Provided by publisher.
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A Locker Room of Her Own
Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus inA Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation, and the similar qualities ancillary to gender bear special exploration in how they impact an athlete's story. Central to this volume is the contention that women in their role as inherent outsiders are placed in a unique position even more complicated than the usual experiences of inequality and discord associated with race and sports. The contributors explore and critique the notion that in order to be considered among the pantheon of athletic heroes one cannot deviate from the traditional demographic profile, that of the white male.
These essays look specifically and critically at the nature of gender and sexuality within the contested nexus of race, reputation, and sport. The collection explores the reputations of iconic and pioneering sports figures and the cultural and social forces that helped to forge their unique and often problematic legacies. Women athletes discussed in this volume include Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the women of the AAGPBL, Billie Jean King, Venus and Serena Williams, Marion Jones, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Sheryl Swoopes, Florence Griffith Joyner, Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer, and Danica Patrick.
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Breaking through : how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties
\"Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, poignant wit, and fascinating primary sources, Macy explores the many hurdles presented to female athletes as they stormed the field, stepped up to bat, and won the right to compete in sports. Featuring bold and talented heroines, this book documents how the social issues and morals of the decade--from politics to segregation to the media--helped shape the changing narratives around women and alter the course of history entirely. It is a fascinating window into a rich and seldom explored history, and also a topical reminder of the many discussions surrounding femininity and the role of women that continue today.\"--Amazon.com
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Anne Goldstein: Putting the Lie in Chicago to the Unathletic Jewish Female
Anne Goldstein was a mainstay in Chicago women's amateur sports during the Depression and war years, competing on the highest amateur levels in basketball and softball. In principle, these are sports open to anyone with a ball and a dream, but sometimes—too often—society erects barriers to suppress the participation of members of certain groups (in America, notably, Jews, Catholics, African Americans and women), who are made to seem unworthy to play mainstream sports. According to widespread stereotypes in her era, Anne Goldstein, as both a Jew and a woman, was not expected to be an athlete, let alone a highly accomplished one. Within her community, women were expected to be mothers, not athletes, and outside it Jews were deemed physically weak and unathletic. But there were progressive elements within the Jewish community that saw women athletes as a positive force in Jewish life and promoted the athletic achievements of Goldstein and her teammates.
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