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Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the premier female athlete of her era, beginning with two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics and extending through a professional golf career that ended just before her death in 1956. Cayleff, professor of women's studies at San Diego State, examines this unique life from three perspectives: Babe's life as she lived it; the public persona Babe created in order to cope with the attitudes and mores of the times; and, finally, Babe's lesbianism. Unable to acknowledge her sexuality, Babe was forced to manufacture a palatable lifestyle for public consumption; hence, her marriage to professional wrestler George Zaharias. In researching her subject, Cayleff relies on Didrikson's sanitized autobiography, subsequent biographies, newspaper accounts, and interviews with family and friends, including the woman with whom Babe shared an intimate relationship, fellow golfer Betty Dodd. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of an astute, gifted woman forced to cope with a society that grudgingly approved of her athleticism but wasn't willing to deal with her sexuality. Wes Lukowsky --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Supremely gifted, [Zaharias] was brash, coarse, and loud, and this biography tells her story wonderfully." -- Library Journal
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the premier female athlete of her era, beginning with two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics and extending through a professional golf career that ended just before her death in 1956. Cayleff, professor of women's studies at San Diego State, examines this unique life from three perspectives: Babe's life as she lived it; the public persona Babe created in order to cope with the attitudes and mores of the times; and, finally, Babe's lesbianism. Unable to acknowledge her sexuality, Babe was forced to manufacture a palatable lifestyle for public consumption; hence, her marriage to professional wrestler George Zaharias. In researching her subject, Cayleff relies on Didrikson's sanitized autobiography, subsequent biographies, newspaper accounts, and interviews with family and friends, including the woman with whom Babe shared an intimate relationship, fellow golfer Betty Dodd. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of an astute, gifted woman forced to cope with a society that grudgingly approved of her athleticism but wasn't willing to deal with her sexuality. Wes Lukowsky --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Supremely gifted, [Zaharias] was brash, coarse, and loud, and this biography tells her story wonderfully." -- Library Journal
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golfing peers, photo section following, greatest woman athlete, muscle moll, hillbilly women, golden cyclone, cancer fund, woman golfer, amateur standing, girl athlete, women athletes, baseball throw, other cancer patients, golf writer, leading money winner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Babe Didrikson, New York, Los Angeles, Babe Zaharias, Betty Dodd, Peggy Kirk Bell, George Zaharias, Patty Berg, Bertha Bowen, Betty Hicks, Employers Casualty, Lamar University, Associated Press, Special Collections, Saturday Evening Post, Hall of Fame, East Texas, Fred Corcoran, Pete Martin, Ruth Scurlock, Betty Jameson, Fort Worth, House of David, Louise Suggs, Tiny Scurlock New!
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Babe's athletic prowess made her noteworthy to local Texans even as a child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
golfing peers, photo section following, greatest woman athlete, muscle moll, hillbilly women, golden cyclone, cancer fund, woman golfer, amateur standing, girl athlete, women athletes, baseball throw, other cancer patients, golf writer, leading money winner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Babe Didrikson, New York, Los Angeles, Babe Zaharias, Betty Dodd, Peggy Kirk Bell, George Zaharias, Patty Berg, Bertha Bowen, Betty Hicks, Employers Casualty, Lamar University, Associated Press, Special Collections, Saturday Evening Post, Hall of Fame, East Texas, Fred Corcoran, Pete Martin, Ruth Scurlock, Betty Jameson, Fort Worth, House of David, Louise Suggs, Tiny Scurlock New!
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- Babe Didrikson: The Greatest All-Sport Athlete of All Time by Susan E. Cayleff on 6 pages
- Hillbilly Women by Kathy Kahn on 4 pages
- No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance by Doreen Rappaport on 4 pages
- The Promise of America by Odd Sverre Lovoll in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Popcorn Venus by Marjorie Rosen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s by Arnd Kruger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life Since 1945 (Columbia Histories of Modern American Life) by Professor Kathryn Jay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Babe Didrikson: The Greatest All-Sport Athlete of All Time by Susan E. Cayleff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision of Greatness by Peter H. Gibbon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality (Women in American History) by Joanne E. Passet in Back Matter
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