CRITICAL ESSAYS




Ader, Armin.  "Marieluiese Fleisser:  Eine Zierde fur den Verein," in Fisher, Nanda, ed. Sport und Literatur.  City of publication unknown:  Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 1986, 151-155.

Albertini, Virgil, “Cather’s Lucy Gayheart:  A Girl in Motion,” Platte Valley Review, 19, 2, 1991, 37-44.

Albertini, Virgil, “Willa Cather and Baseball:  Some Personal and Literary Connections,” Platte Valley Review, 17, 2, 1989, 16-24.

Albertini, Virgil, “Willa Cather and Football:  A Strange Duality,” Platte Valley Review, 14,1, 1986, 8-18.

Albertini, Virgil, “Will Cather and the Bicycle,” Platte Valley Review, 15, 1, 1987, 12-22.

Bandy, Susan J. “The Female Athlete as Protagonist:  From Cynisca to Butcher,”  Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, XV:1, Fall, 1997,  83-97.

Bandy, Susan J.  “Le Sport et la litterature, in Revue Olympique. XVII-15, Juin-Juillet, 1997, 38-43.

Boutilier, Nancy.  "How Girljock Are You?" in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports Dykes: Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, xix-xxiv.

Brownworth, Victoria A.  "The Competitive Closet," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed.  Sports  Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 75-86.

Connolly, Olga.  "Destroying a Myth," in Brady, John and Hall, James.  Sports Literature - Patterns in Literary Art Series.  New York:  McGraw Hill, 1975, page numbers unknown.

Darden, Anne S. “Outsiders:  Women in Sport and Literature,” Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, XV:1, Fall, 1997,  1-10.

Griffin, Patricia S.  “R.R. Knudson’s Sport Fiction:  A Feminist Critique,“ Arete:  The Journal of Sport Literature, III, 1, 1985, 3-10.

Hicks, Betty.  "Lesbian Athletes," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 57-74.

Horvath, Brooke K. and Carson, Sharon G.  “Women’s Sports Poetry:  Some Observations  and Representative Texts,” in Umphlett, Wiley Lee, ed.  The Achievement of American Sport Literature:  A Critical Appraisal.  London:  Associated University  Presses, 1991, 1991, 116-131.

Inness, Sherrie A.  “’It Is Pluck  But Is It Sense?’:  Athletic Student Culture in Progressive  Era Girls’ College Fiction.” Journal of Popular Culture, 27:1 (1993), 99-123.

Jones, Ann Kailani, “The Female Athlete, Her Image in Fact and Fiction:  A Study In Sociology Through Literature, Unpublished dissertation, University of Alberta, 1981.

Kane, Mary Jo.  “Fictional Denials of Female Empowerment:  A Feminist Analysis of Young Adult Sports Fiction,” in Sociology of Sport Journal, 15, 1998, 231-262.

Lenskyj, Helen.  “Out in the Field:  Lesbians in Sport Fiction,” Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, 12, 2, 1995, 99-112.

Lenskyj, Helen.  “Sports Literature:  Lesbian,” Summers, Claude J., ed.  The Gay and  Lesbian Literary Heritage:  A Reader’s Companion to the Writers and Their Works, From Antiquity to the Present.  New York:  Henry Holt and Co., 1995, 678-681.

Lurie, Rachel.  "Martina and Me:  A Trilogy," in Fox Rogers, Susan.  Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 1994, 120-129.

Markels, Robin Bells.  “The Conduct and Culture of Women’s Basketball in Necessary Hunger,” in Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, 17,2, 2000, 143-157.

McDermott, Lisa.  "Toward a Feminist Understanding of Physicality Within the Context Of Women's Physically Active and Sporting Lives," in Sociology of Sport Journal, 13, 1996, 12-30.

Messenger, Christian K.  "The Inscription of Women in American Sports Fictional Narrative," in  Fisher, Nanda, ed.  Sport und Literatur.  Munchen:  Feldafing bei Munchen, 1989, 70-89.

Messenger, Janet Graveline.  “Sports Fiction for Girls,” WomenSports, 4:8 (1977), 54-55.

Noe, Mark,  “Usurping the Ubermensche:  The Sporting Superwoman in George Egerton’s Short Fiction,” Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, XV:1, Fall,1997,  15-29.

Oriard, Michael.  "From Jane Allen to Water Dancer:  A Brief History of the Feminist (?)  Sports Novel," in Modern Fiction Studies, 33, 1, Spring, 1987, 9-20.

Porter, Kathleen Sullivan. “Women as ‘Goddess’ Archetypes in Baseball Fiction,” Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, XV:1, Fall, 1997,  67-82.

Roxxie.  "It's How You Play the Game," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories from On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 206-208.

Sandoz, Joli.  “Review Essay:  Lesbian Sport Fiction.” Lesbian Review of Books, 1:4 (1995), 22-23.

Sandoz, Joli.  “’Strong, Cool, and Brave”:  Constructing the Female Athlete in U.S. Women’s Sport Fiction Throught 1977,” Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, XV:1, Fall, 1997,  31-66

Sandoz, Joli.  “Women as Athlets:  Creating a Literature of Vindiction,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 1999, B 7-8.

Sherman, Beatrice.   “Tennis Careerists,” New York Times Book Review, 29 September,  1940.

Sloan, Louise.  "Taking Up Space," in Fox Rogers, Susan, ed. Sports Dykes:  Stories  from  On and Off the Field.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1994, 95-98.

Steinberg, Renee, ‘Striking out Stereotypes:  Girls in Sport Fiction, “  School Library Journal, 36, 6, 1990, 62-63.
 
 

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