Atalanta's sisters: Sport, gender, and technology in popular press, 1921–1996
The myth of Atalanta represents the struggle for women athletes to gain legitimacy. Atalanta has strength and power that are foiled by heterosexual conventions of the sex/gender system. Thus, she functions as a metaphor of possibility and dashed hopes. This study explains the persistence of heterose...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2001
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3000317 |