Women and sports in the United States: a documentary reader

Timeline : 125 years of U.S. women in sports / Edited by Susan K. Cahn and Jean O'Reilly

Pt. I. Pioneering women in sport

Olympic women : a struggle for recognition / Jennifer Hargreaves

How I learned to ride the bicycle / Frances E. Willard

world-beating Viking girl of Texas

Playing nice : politics and apologies in women's sports / Mary Jo Festle

Pioneers / J. E. Vader

Riggs butchered by Ms. King as promoters score a million / Charles Maher

"Mia" Culpa : the all-too quiet retirement of Mia Hamm / David Zirin

Pt. II. Negotiating masculinity and femininity : the female athlete as oxymoron

significance of basket ball for women / Senda Berenson

Are athletics making girls masculine? : a practical answer to a question every girl asks / Dudley A. Sargent

All-American girls professional baseball league rules of conduct, 1943-1954 / The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Psychosocial impacts of athletic participation on American women : facts and fables / Don Sabo

Throwing like a girl / James Fallows

Living the paradox : female athletes negotiate femininity and muscularity / Vikki Krane, Precilla Y. L. Choi, Shannon M. Baird, Christine M. Aimar and Kerrie J. Kauer

Pt. III. Competing bodies : physiological, biological, and psychological issues

Chromosome count / Alison Carlson

Closing the muscle gap / Ann Crittenden

Understanding the female athlete triad / Irene McCormick

Women and ACL injuries : taking the bad news with the good / Maureen Madden

Catastrophic injuries in female athletes : cheerleading leads the list / Robert C. Cantu and Frederick O. Mueller

Women, disability, and sport and physical fitness activity : the intersection of gender and disability dynamics / Elaine M. Blinde and Sarah G. McCallister

Anabolic steroids : the gremlins of sport / Terry Todd

Eating disorders and gymnastics / Ana Cintado

silence of great distance : women running long / Frank Murphy

Coming home / Joli Sandoz

Stronger women / Mariah Burton Nelson

Pt. IV. Building inequality into sport : institutionalized bias

Structural constraints facing women in sport / Nancy Theberge and Susan Birrell

Half-court basketball : power and sex / Heather Ross Miller

"I can see the finish line" / Mark Starr

Courting destiny / Raquel Cepeda

Cold Wars : inside the secret world of figure skating / Joan Ryan

Rooting for Michelle : finding contradictions at the Winter Olympics / Bill Wong

Breaking cultural traditions : culture, family play role in sports for Latina girls / MaryJo Sylwester

On the Rez / Ian Frazier

Pt. V. Sexuality and Sport

Changing the game : homophobia, sexism, and lesbians in sport / Pat Griffin

Homophobia alleged in University of Florida softball / Jim Buzinski

Less Ugly / Leslea Newman

Sex, lies, and volleyball / Cynthia Hanson

In the buff : female athletes take it all off / Penny Hastings

new image exposed / Tom Maloney

Pt. VI. feminine image in sports and sports media

Separating the men from the girls : the gendered language of televised sports / Michael Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Kerry Jensen

Sport and society broadcast for Friday, August 16, 1996 / Richard C. Crepeau

women's sports film as the new melodrama / Jean O'Reilly

It's time to tell the bloody truth / Lorie Conway

Bloodsports : woman's first pro fight is her last / Joe Posnanski

Offensive interface / Sherry Ricchiardi

Pt. VII. Law and equity : Title IX and its aftermath

Title IX, education amendments of 1972 : Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688 / U.S. Department of Labor

Title IX media helper / Women's Sports Foundation

Brown University agrees to guarantee participation rates for women athletes and funding for contested women's teams / Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

Title IX at 30 : report card on gender equity-athletics, C+ / The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education

train wreck called Title IX / George F. Will

In the spirit of Title IX / Emily Badger

Title IX - the good news, the bad news / California Women's Law Center. DL