Examine how women (either in The All-American Girls Baseball League or owners and players in the Negro Leagues, or both) challenged and affirmed traditional gender roles in America in the mid-Twentieth Century.
Use two of the sources below:
Peter Dreier and Robert Elias, Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up and Changed America’s Game
Luke Epplin, Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball
James Overmyer, Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles
Debra Shattuck, “Playing a Man’s Game: Women and Baseball in the United States, 1866-1954,”
in Baseball History from Outside the Lines: A Reader (University of Nebraska Press, 2001), edited by John E. Dreifort
Larry Ritter, “Thelma ‘Tiny’ Eisen and Anita Foss: Baseball Players and Pioneers for Women’s
Rights in a League of Their Own,” in American Jews and America’s Game: Voices of a
Growing Legacy in Baseball (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
Tracy Everbach, “Breaking Baseball Barriers: The 1953-1954 Negro League and Expansion of
Women’s Public Roles.” American Journalism 22(1) 92005) 13-32.
Carol J. Pierman. “Baseball, Conduct, and True Womanhood.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol
33, Nos. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 68-85
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