Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Timeline: 125 Years of U.S. Women in Sports -- Part I: Pioneering Women in Sport -- Olympic Women: A Struggle for Recognition -- How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle -- The World-Beating Viking Girl of Texas -- Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports -- Pioneers -- Riggs Butchered by Ms. King as Promoters Score a Million -- "Mia" Culpa: The All-Too Quiet Retirement of Mia Hamm -- Part II: Negotiating Masculinity and Femininity: The Female Athlete as Oxymoron -- The Significance of Basket Ball for Women -- Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine?: A Practical Answer to a Question Every Girl Asks -- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Rules of Conduct, 1943-1954 -- Psychosocial Impacts of Athletic Participation on American Women: Facts and Fables -- Throwing Like a Girl -- Living the Paradox: Female Athletes Negotiate Femininity and Muscularity -- Part III: Competing Bodies: Physiological, Biological, and Psychological Issues -- Chromosome Count -- Closing the Muscle Gap -- Understanding the Female Athlete Triad -- Women and ACL Injuries: Taking the Bad News with the Good -- Catastrophic Injuries in Female Athletes: Cheerleading Leads the List -- Women, Disability, and Sport and Physical Fitness Activity: The Intersection of Gender and Disability Dynamics -- Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport -- Eating Disorders and Gymnastics -- The Silence of Great Distance: Women Running Long -- Coming Home -- Stronger Women -- Part IV: Building Inequality into Sport: Institutionalized Bias -- Structural Constraints Facing Women in Sport -- Half-Court Basketball: Power and Sex -- "I Can See the Finish Line" -- Courting Destiny -- The Cold Wars: Inside the Secret World of Figure Skating.

Rooting for Michelle: Finding Contradictions at the Winter Olympics -- Breaking Cultural Traditions: Culture, Family Play Role in Sports for Latina Girls -- On the Rez -- Part V: Sexuality and Sport -- Changing the Game: Homophobia, Sexism, and Lesbians in Sport -- Homophobia Alleged in University of Florida Softball -- Less Ugly -- Sex, Lies, and Volleyball -- In the Buff: Female Athletes Take It All Off -- A New Image Exposed -- Part VI: The Feminine Image in Sports and Sports Media -- Separating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sports -- Sport and Society Broadcast for Friday, August 16, 1996 -- The Women's Sports Film as the New Melodrama -- It's Time to Tell the Bloody Truth -- Bloodsport: Woman's First Pro Fight Is Her Last -- Offensive Interference -- Part VII: Law and Equity: Title IX and Its Aftermath -- Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972: Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688 -- Title IX Media Helper -- Brown University Agrees to Guarantee Participation Rates for Women Athletes and Funding for Contested Women's Teams -- Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity-Athletics, C+ -- A Train Wreck Called Title IX -- In the Spirit of Title IX -- Title IX-The Good News, the Bad News -- Index.

The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports.

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