Research and Course Guides: Teach-in Tuesday companion guide: Making Waves: Women, Sport, and Social Reform

Suggested readings

Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport
Algeo, Matthew. Chicago Review Press, 2014. ebook (requires St. Thomas login)
A Golf Lullaby
Barbour, Margaret, 1900. Outing, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation.
"Champion of Her Sex: Miss Susan B. Anthony Tells the Story of Her Remarkable Life to ‘Nellie Bly’.”
Bly, Nellie. 1896. The World. Reprinted in The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : An Awful Hush, 1895 To 1906.
Pedestriennes: Newsworthy but Controversial Women in Sporting Entertainment
Shaulis, Dahn, 1999. Journal of Sport History, v. 26(1), 29-150.
'We Don't Have Enough Women In Power': Notre Dame Coach Muffet McGraw Goes Viral
Doubek, James, 2019. NPR.
Margaret Abbott: the First American Woman to Win an Olympic Championship
Fox, Margalit, March 11, 2018. New York Times, Overlooked Obituaries.
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Link is to New York Times website which restricts number of article you can read. You can also read the article through St. Thomas Libraries' subscription (requires St. Thomas login)
Golf at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Women's Individual
Sports Reference
Margaret Abbott, the First Female Olympic Champion
Levins, Sandy, 2018. Wednesday Women with Sandy Levins.
Getting into the Games: Olympic Women
Maurer, Elizabeth, 2016. National Women's History Museum.
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and M.J. Cage, 1889. A History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (Rochester, N.Y.: Fowler and Wells).
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We have a copy of "A History of Woman Suffrage" in the O'Shaughnessy Frey library. Call Number JK1896 .H57 1985. check availability in CLICsearch
March is Women’s (Bike) History Month!
Szczepanski, Carolyn, 2019. League of American Bicyclists: News from the League.
Half-court basketball: power and sex
Theberge, Nancy and Birrell, Susan, 2007. In Women and Sports in the United States : a Documentary Reader, Jean O'Reilly and Susan K. Cahn, eds. Northeaster University Press. (requires St Thomas login)
Resource 17: Reactions to Seneca Falls
New-York Historical Society, Center for Women's History

Books in the Library

Fighting the Current by Lisa Bier
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey library, main collection GV837.5 .B54 2011
ISBN: 9780786440283
Publication Date: 2011
A Whole Other Ball Game by Joli Sandoz (Ed)
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey library, main collection PS509.W63 W49 1997
ISBN: 0374525218
Publication Date: 1997
Wheel Within a Wheel by Frances E. Willard
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey library, main collection GV1057 .W73 1997
ISBN: 1557094497
Publication Date: 1997 (orig. published 1895)
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Around the World on Two Wheels by Peter Zheutlin
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey library, main collection GV1044 .Z47 2008
ISBN: 9780806530666
Publication Date: 2008
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