• Acknowledgments • Timeline: 125 Years of U.S. Women in Sports - Compiled by Susan K. Cahn and Jean O’Reilly • Pioneering Women in Sport • Olympic Women: A Struggle for Recognition - Jennifer Hargreaves • How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle • Frances E. Willard • The World-Beating Viking Girl of Texas - No Author Attribution • Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women’s Sports • Mary Jo Festle • Pioneers - J. E. Vader
• Riggs Butchered by Ms. King as Promoters Score a Million - Charles Maher • “Mia” Culpa: The All–Too Quiet Retirement of Mia Hamm - David Zirin • Negotiating Masculinity and Femininity: The Female Athlete as Oxymoron • The Significance of Basket Ball for Women - Senda Berenson
• Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine?: A Practical Answer to a Question Every Girl Asks - Dudley A. Sargent, M.D. • All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Rules of Conduct, 1943–1954 - The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League • Psychosocial Impacts of Athletic Participation on American Women: Facts and Fables - Don Sabo • Throwing Like a Girl - James Fallows
• Living the Paradox: Female Athletes Negotiate Femininity and Muscularity - Vikki Krane, Precilla Y. L. Choi, Shannon M. Baird, Christine M. Aimar, and Kerrie J. Kauer • Competing Bodies: Physiological, Biological, and Psychological Issues • Chromosome Count - Alison Carlson • Closing the Muscle Gap - Ann Crittenden • Understanding the Female Athlete Triad - Irene McCormick • Women and ACL Injuries: Taking the Bad News with the Good - Maureen Madden, PT, CSCS • Catastrophic Injuries in Female Athletes: Cheerleading Leads the List - Robert C. Cantu, M.D., and Frederick O. Mueller, Ph.D. • Women, Disability, and Sport and Physical Fitness Activity: The Intersection of Gender and Disability Dynamics - Elaine M. Blinde and Sarah G. McCallister • Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport - Terry Todd • Eating Disorders and Gymnastics - Ana Cintado • The Silence of Great Distance: Women Running Long - Frank Murphy • Coming Home - Joli Sandoz • Stronger Women - Mariah Burton Nelson • Building Inequality into Sport: Institutionalized Bias • Structural Constraints Facing Women in Sport - Nancy Theberge and Susan Birrell • Half-Court Basketball: Power and Sex - Heather Ross Miller • “I Can See the Finish Line” - Mark Starr • Courting Destiny - Raquel Cepeda • The Cold Wars: Inside the Secret World of Figure Skating - Joan Ryan • Rooting for Michelle: Finding Contradictions at the Winter Olympics - Bill Wong • Breaking Cultural Traditions: Culture, Family Play Role in Sports for Latina Girls - Maryjo Sylwester
• On the Rez - Ian Frazier • Sexuality and Sport • Changing the Game: Homophobia, Sexism, and Lesbians in Sport - Pat Griffin • Homophobia Alleged in University of Florida Softball - Jim Buzinski • Less Ugly - Lesléa Newman • Sex, Lies, and Volleyball - Cynthia Hanson • In the Buff: Female Athletes Take It All Off - Penny Hastings • A New Image Exposed - Tom Maloney • The Feminine Image in Sports and Sports Media • Separating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sports - Michael Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, and Kerry Jensen • Sport and Society Broadcast for Friday, August 16, 1996 - Richard C. Crepeau • The Women’s Sports Film as the New Melodrama - Jean O’Reilly • It’s Time to Tell the Bloody Truth - Lorie Conway • Bloodsport: Woman’s First Pro Fight Is Her Last - Joe Posnanski • Offensive Interference - Sherry Ricchiardi
• Law and Equity: Title IX and Its Aftermath • Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972: Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681–1688 - U.S. Department of Labor • Title IX Media Helper - Women’s Sports Foundation • Brown University Agrees to Guarantee Participation Rates for Women Athletes and Funding for Contested Women’s Teams - Trial Lawyers for Public Justice • Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity—Athletics, C+ - The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education • A Train Wreck Called Title IX - George F. Will • In the Spirit of Title IX - Emily Badger • Title IX—The Good News, the Bad News - California Women’s Law Center • Index