No League of Their Own
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4054098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amira Rose Davis |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 125 |
| Pages | 74-96 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-3451748 |
| OpenAlex | W2460203755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article examines the experiences and representations of three black women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s. The article demonstrates the way the Negro League owners, the black press, and black male sportswriters used varying representations of athletic black womanhood to sell game tickets and generate business for a league in decline. Ultimately, the article argues that the recovery of the women in the 1990s romanticizes their civil rights-era athletic participation and obscures the physical and symbolic labor they performed as professional athletes
Advertising · Athletes · Black women · Business · Civil rights · League · Physical therapy · Political science · Sociology · American Sports and Literature · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Race, History, and American Society · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |