As a former athlete and a graduate student in sports studies, I embraced feminism in the 1970s. It seemed to be a natural alliance because I had experienced sports as personally liberating and felt that it offered females the possibility to become accomplished athletes, develop strong and healthy bodies and defy societal views of females […]
Author: Susan J. Bandy
Susan J. Bandy, Ph.D., is a professor in the Sport and Humanities Program at Ohio State University. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary, teaching at the Hungarian University of Physical Education, and taught in Denmark at Aarhus University. She has written many articles concerning sport and gender, is co-author, with Anne S. Darden, of Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport, and co-author, with Vicki Bjerre, of Scandinavian Sport Literature: Heroes, Memory, and Identity. She is a former competitive basketball player in high school and also played for Berry College, for which she wrote The Viking Tradition: 100 Years of Sport at Berry College.