Profiles of superstar women athletes and the obstacles they face
Essays by Lisa Doris Alexander, Kathleen A. Bishop, Angela J.
Hattery, Lisa R. Neilson, Roberta J. Newman, Elizabeth O'Connell,
Martha Reid, C. Oren Renick, Joel Nathan Rosen, Yvonne D. Sims,
Earl Smith, Lea Robin Velez, and Kimberly Young Female athletes are
too often perceived as interlopers in the historically
maledominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of
particular focus in A 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. David C. Ogden, Pacific Junction, Iowa, is
associate professor in the department of communications at
University of Nebraska at Omaha. Joel Nathan Rosen, Allentown,
Pennsylvania, is associate professor of sociology and Africana
studies at Moravian College. They are coeditors of Reconstructing
Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations and Fame to Infamy:
Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace, both published by the
University Press of Mississippi.
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