Athletics/Track and Field

Butcher, Grace.  "Remembering Stella Walsh," in The Ohio Runner, 9, 1, July, 1987, 14-17.

Connolly, Olga.  The Rings of Destiny.  New York:  D. McKay Co., 1968.
 

Basketball

Boutilier, Nancy.  "Hotshot," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 14-25.

Miller, Heather Ross.  "Half-Court Basketball:  Power and Sex,” in Stine, Peter, ed.  Sports In America.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1995 ,page numbers unknown.

Nelson, Mariah Burton.  "Paid to Play a Game," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:   Stories  from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 87-94.

Schwartz, Harriet L.  "Sweet Pass," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from  On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 29-34.
 

Canoeing

Brown, Maria.  "A Song of Women Traveling," in Niemi, Judith and Wieser, Barbara, eds.   Rivers  Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Bergamot Books,  1987,  67-68.

Kalland, Anna.  "It Can't Be Done," in Niemi, Judith and Wieser, Barbara, eds.  Rivers Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Bergamot Books, 1987, 146-156.

Peabody, Leslie Glendower.  "The Canoe and the Woman," in Niemi, Judith and Wieser, Barbara, eds.  Rivers Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Beramot Books, 1987, 179-183.

Pinkerton, Kathrene.  "The Bush," in Niemi, Judith and Wieser, Barbara, eds.  River  Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Bergamot Books, 1987, 81-85.

Weaver, Caryl.  "The Noatak:  Getting Back," in Niemi, Judith and Weiser, Barbara, eds.  Rivers  Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Bergamot Books, 1987,  100-103.
 

Cycling

Willard, Francis.  A Wheel Within a Wheel:  How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle.  New York:  Fleming H. Revell Company, 1895.

Willard, Frances E.  "How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle," in Twin, Stephanie, L., ed.  Out of the Bleachers:  Writings on Women and Sport.  Old Westbury, N.Y.:  Feminist Press, 1979, 103-114.
 

Dog Sled Racing

Riddles, Libby and Jones, Tim.  Race Across Alaska.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:  Stackpole  Books, 1988.
 

Football

Lowinger, Rosa.  „Off the Bench,” in Stine, Peter, ed.  Sports in America.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1995, page number unknown.
 

Games

Mushroom, Merril.  "The Tournament," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories  from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 3-9.
 

Gymnastics

Retton, Mary Lou.  Mary Lou: Creating an Olympic Champion.  New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986.
 

Martial Arts

Solomon, Alisa.  "The Belt," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 39-45.
 

Mountain Climbing
 

Roddan, Janet.  "April Fools on Polar Circus,” in Da Silva, Rachel. Leading Out:  Women Climbers Reaching for the Top.  Seattle:  Seal Press, 1992.
 

River Rafting

Abbott, Deborah.  "Of Hightops and Home Plates," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 46-50.
 

Running

Butcher, Grace.  "All the Miles of My Life," in Runner's World Magazine, eds.  The Complete Woman Runner World Publications, 1978, 287-306.

Kosonen, Ulla.  „A Runnning Girl:  Fragments of My Body History.”  In Laine, Leena, ed. On the Fringes of Sport.  Sankt Augustin, Germany:  Academia Verlag, 1983, 16- 25.
 

Soccer/Football

Hanna, S. S. Beyond Winning: Memoir of a Women's Soccer Coach. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1996.

Sommers, Robbi.  "From the Sidelines," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories from  On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 209-215.

Skiing

Lawrence, Andrea Mead and Burnaby, Sara. A Practice of Mountains. New York: Seaview Books, 1980. 

Softball

Griffin, Pat.  "Diamonds, Dykes, and Double Plays,"  in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field. New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 191-201.

Miller, Kimberly.  "Touching Goya:  Thunder vs. Bombers 1992," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.   Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994,  216-218.

Newman, Leslea.  "Less Ugly," in Fox Rogers, Susan.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 10-13.
 

Sport

Goldberg, Maria Noell.  "Change-Ups," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories from  On and Off the Field. New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 99-104.

Griffin, Pat.  "Gay Games III:  Reflections of a Cancer Survivor," in Fox Rogers, Susan.  Sports  Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 51.

Heywood, Leslie.  Pretty Good for a Girl:  A Memoir. New York:  The Free Press, 1998.

Martin, April.  "Another Lesbian Jock," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories  From On and Off the Field, 1994, 35-38.

Zaharias, Mildred Didrikson.  This Life I've Led.  New York:  A. S. Barnes, 1955.

Zimet, Jaye.  "Confessions of a Confirmed Couch Potato, or, the Lamentations of a Latent Sports Dykes," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St.Martin's Press, 1994, 111-117.

Zipter, Yvonne.  "My Fitness Routine?" in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes: Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 228-231.
 

Swimming

Geracimos, Ann.  "Memoirs of a Would-Be Swim champ," in Twin, Stephanie. Out of the  Bleachers:  Writings on Women and Sport. Old Westbury, N. Y.:  Feminist Press, 1979,  114-130.

Nyad, Diana.  Other Shores.  New York:  Random House, 1978.

Sutherland, Audrey.  "Building Your Own Fires," in Niemi, Judith and Weiser, Barbara,eds.   Rivers Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Bergamot Books, 1987, 264-265.
 

Tennis

Gibson, Althea. I always wanted to be Somebody. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

Goolagong, Evonne.  Evonne!  On the Move.  New York:  E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1975.

King, Billie Jean.  Billie Jean.  New York:  Harper and Row, 1974.

Liss, Laurie Ellen.  "Losing Wimbledon," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field. New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 118-119.

Morris, Bonnie.  "How I (Almost) Met Martina Navratilova," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 130-132.

Navratilova, Martina.  Martina.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
 
 
 

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