Crossing Boundaries: An international anthology of women's experiences in sport
Crossing Boundaries: An Anthology of Women’s Experiences in Sport
will help you discover, understand, and appreciate the depth and complexity of the
female experience in sport. This is a journey to the center of feminine identity,
a survey of past and present voices that lead you into the minds, hearts, and souls
of women in sport. The largest literary compilation of writings on and by women in
sports, Crossing Boundaries serves as a chronology of attitudes and a catalog
of experiences. International in scope, some of these pieces have been translated
into English for the first time, thus expanding the sports canon.
All genres are represented-poems, short stories, prose memoirs, journalistic accounts, plays, and novels-to illustrate the broad reach of the literature written by women from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives. This is the female story in and out of sport, one told by outsiders, insiders, spectators, recreational athletes, and transnational sports heroes. Crossing Boundaries starts with an important historical perspective dating back to Cynisca, the first female victor in the ancient Olympic Games. The book goes on to examine themes which have long been included in women’s writings yet have been long overlooked by both feminists and literary critics. These themes include:
Because women had for so long been excluded from official sports, relegated for centuries to the role of passive spectator, you will find literature about play, dance, movement, games, and exercise-activities often considered ancillary to and preparatory for the more important activity of sport. Similarly, since the editors extended their search to other countries to expand the limits of the contemporary Western perceptions of sport, you can widen your understanding of the female sporting experience. The young women who took advantage of the passing of Title IX by the NCAA in 1972 to take part in high school and college sports have now become mothers, and their daughters are following in their footsteps. A new atmosphere of acceptance and encouragement for female athletes of all ages means more and more women are experiencing the joy of sports participation. This book connects generations of women and girls with a vivid, compelling sporting heritage. |
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Lost and Won - Mary Russell Mitford
The Hunting of the Hare - Margaret Cavendish (Duchess of Newcastle)
Boys of These Men Full Speed - Muriel Rukeyser
Hang-gliders in January - U.A. Fanthorpe
The Sprinters - Lillian Morrison
Smalltown Dance - Judith Wright
Young Girls Running - Jean Earle
Golf - Laura Jensen
Women’s Tug of War at Lough Arrow - Tess Gallagher
A Study for the Badminton Game - Pauline Stainer
Hotshot - Nancy Boutilier
Marathoner - Stephanie Plotin
Running - Leslie Ullman
On Watching a World Series Game - Sonia Sanchez
The Jockey - Carson McCullers
The Splendid Outcast - Beryl Markham
Why Aren’t Women Racing at Indy? Janet Guthrie Knows - Tracy Dodds
A Marble Game in 1955 - Jadene Felina Stevens
Playing Pool - Julia Darling
The Lady Pitcher - Cynthia MacDonald
Change-Ups - Maria Noell Goldberg
First Peace - Barbara Lamblin
Part 2. Dear Body . . .
Little League Women - Deena Metzger
Athletic - Anne Rouse
Pumping Iron - Diane Ackerman
Disappearing - Monica Wood
The Dancer - Nancy Boutilier
Belly Dancer - Diane Wakoski
Learning to Ride - Susan McMaster
What if I Become a Body Builder? - Tobey Kaplan
Hard-Hitting Woman: Winning the Serve - Maxine Silverman
A Running Girl: Fragments of My Body History - Ulla Kosonen
The Swimmer - Lorna Crozier
Runner Resumes Training After an Injury - Grace Butcher
"Muscles" Hougen Comes Out of Softball Retirement - Judith Hougen
Late Bloomers - Barbara Smith
Antarctica Considers Her Explorers - Diane Ackerman
To a Woman Caving - Linda Rose Parker
Biking at Dusk Along the Charles - Jean Monahan
Runner at Twilight - Grace Butcher
Swimmers - Ruth Harriet Jacobs
The Nude Swim - Anne Sexton
Swimming the Body’s Water - Lucia Cordell Getsi
The Swimmer - Angela Gatteschi
Part 3. Woman and Nature: The Bond With the Hunted
The Mighty Hunter - Mrs. J.B. Worley
Men Fishing in the Arno - Elizabeth Jennings
Hooked - Nancy Boutilier
Fishing - Kay Ryan
Lady with a Falcon - May Sarton
Song of the Fisherman’s Lover - Roseann Lloyd
Birdshooting Season - Olive Senior
The Goring - Sylvia Plath
The Buck - Joyce Carol Oates
Time of Fish Dying - Gabriela Melinescu
The Falconers - Simonne Jacquemard
Death Invited - May Swenson
His Power: He Tames What Is Wild - Susan Griffin
Jacklight - Louise Erdrich
Fishing Off Nova Scotia - Sharon Olds
The Trappers - Margaret Atwood
The Weighing - Jane Hirshfield
In Yellow Grass - Jane Hirshfield
Part 4. The Contact Imperative
Basketball at Bryn Mawr - Ethel le Roy de Koven
Transit - Adrienne Rich
Red Runner - Diane Wakoski
Running with Helena - Theresa W. Miller
The Interpretation of Baseball - Carole Oles
City Ball - Roberta Israeloff
The Pain Business - Linda France
The Cyclist - Cherry Clayton
Ping-Pong Doubles Match - Mary Ann Waters
Not Shooting Sitting Birds - Jean Rhys
A Swimming Lesson - Jewelle L. Gomez
In the Ocean - Patricia Goedicke
Woman Skating - Margaret Atwood
Daughter, Diving - Paulette Roeske
Golf Lesson - Susan Ioannou
Teaching Chess to a Daughter - Jo Casullo
Lines - Barbara Smith
Outswimming - Lucia Cordell Getsi
Sometimes in Winter - Linda Pastan
Morning Athletes - Marge Piercy
Soccer by Moonlight - Anita Skeen
The Locker Room - Susan Richards Shreve
Competition - Mariah Burton Nelson
Prothalamion - Maxine Kumin
Pair Partner - Janice Bultman
State of Grace - Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev - Adrienne Rich
Part 5. Encounters With Sport: Discovery of Self
A Winter Ride - Amy Lowell
I Dance - Valeska Gert
First Dive - Florence McNeil
The Dive - Cornelia Brownell Gould
April Fools on Polar Circus - Janet Roddan
Surfing - Ellen Phethean
The Tournament - Merril Mushroom
Posting-Up - Stephanie Grant
Her Marathon - Jenifer Levin
Women Who Run - Laurel Starkey
Running - Ellen E. Moore
Swimming - Svava Jakobsdottir
Mary Bacon Loses Her Final Race - Joan Ryan
Margarethe "Gretel" Bergmann from How She Played the Game - Cynthia L. Cooper
Contest - Florence Victor
The Uni-Gym - Anne Rouse
Early Morning Swim - Vicky Darling
Part 6. Beyond Gender, Space, and Time: Dervish Rhythms in the Games of the Gods
Golden Section, Giants Stadium - Diane Ackerman
Frozen Motion - Wislawa Szymborska
Dancers Exercising - Amy Clampitt
Martha Graham - Elaine Equi
Breaking the Speed Record - Cristina Peri Rossi
Amateur Athletic Meeting - Elizabeth Smither
The Runner - Erin Mouré
Dance Memories - Denise Levertov
Song for Girls or Balance Beams - Zehra Cirak
Greek Dances I - Simonne Jacquemard
Greek Dances II - Simonne Jacquemard
Muscle Like Metaphor Pulls Thin and Tough - Vivian Jokl
African Chess 1977 - Tessa Ransford
Between Hard Rocks and Savage Winds I Try - Vittoria Colonna
Rowing - Anne Sexton
The Swimmer - Sharon Olds
A Game of Ball - Muriel Rukeyser
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