From child's play to molder of men: the gendered narrative of nineteenth-century baseball

Baseball has not always been identified as a man’s game despite the fact that its boosters began proclaiming it a “manly” pastime in antebellum America. This thesis reveals, for the first time, that baseball began as a gender-neutral sport. Countless girls and women across the country played the gam...

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Main Author: Shattuck, Debra Ann
Other Authors: Kerber, Linda K.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5994
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7475&context=etd