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Bloomer Girls - Women Baseball Pioneers (Hardcover)
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Bloomer Girls - Women Baseball Pioneers (Hardcover)
Series: Sport and Society
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Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the
effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as
a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century
faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female
nines took the field everywhere. 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 even found roster spots on men's teams.
Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment,
organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced
financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in
women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them
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. Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a
first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.
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