Keywords
feminism, sports, women's suffrage, Title IX, field hockey
Abstract
Only in the United States is field hockey considered a "women's sport," and the story of its unusual transformation of male-dominated “hockey” from the British Isles to women’s-only “field hockey” in America reveals a deeper connection between sport, feminism, and society. A symbol of unlocked freedom for the "New Woman" at the turn of the twentieth century, under Title IX the sport becomes a case study in how gender is reproduced in modern society.
Recommended Citation
Anhouse, Dara (2023) "It’s Complicated: Field Hockey and Feminism in the United States," Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal: 4 (2), 6-19. https://works.swarthmore.edu/suhj/vol4/iss2/1
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