Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport
Former athlete and coach Pat Griffin makes a provocative and impassioned call for attention to a topic too long avoided by women's sports advocates. In Strong Women, Deep Closets, she provides a critical analysis of discrimination and prejudice against lesbians in sport.\ The book is the first to explore the lesbian sporting experience as well as examine homophobia and heterosexism in women's sport. The work is based on theoretical and historical foundations and is written in an academic yet...
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In Strong Women, Deep Closets, longtime coach-athlete Pat Griffin discusses the homophobia that pervades every aspect of the sporting life. Drawing on years of experience, she makes an impassioned plea to feminists and women in sports to help overcome heterosexism in women's sports -- discrimination that, as she illustrates, she dealt with on a daily basis.
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1My Journey Home12Sport: Where Men Are Men and Women Are Trespassers153Damaged Mothers, Muscle Molls, Mannish Lesbians, and Predatory Dykes: 100 Years of Scaring Women Out of Sport294Leering, Leching, and Low Down: Demonizing Lesbians in Sport515Full Court Press: Defending Women's Sport Against the Lesbian Boogeywoman656Life in the Shadow of the Lesbian Boogeywoman: The Climate for Lesbians in Sport917We Prey, They Pray? Lesbians and Evangelical Christians in Sport1098The Culture of the Closet: Identity-Management Strategies of Lesbian College Coaches and Athletes1339Unplayable Lies: Lesbians in Sport Choosing Truth15710Love and Community in the Locker Room: Double Trouble or Double Standards?18111Opening Minds, Opening Closet Doors: Transforming Women's Sport207References228Index240About the Author245
