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This article highlights the transition Nelson was forced to make from the community she found as a young woman where she felt free and empowered to celebrate herself and express herself as a lesbian, to the "real world" where she was forced to choose between being open about her homosexuality or continue playing professional basketball. I couldn't believe they sent the women on the California team to charm school in order to "portray a feminine (that is, heterosexual) image." [311] The focus on this transition effectively illustrates the societal stifling of those perceived to be different, particularly those who challenge socially-encouraged gender roles. This transition is reflected in a sort of reverse in the following account "La Mujer," where the writer finds her individuality and strength when she is finally able to explore her identity after a stifling adolescence. -Erin B. | This article highlights the transition Nelson was forced to make from the community she found as a young woman where she felt free and empowered to celebrate herself and express herself as a lesbian, to the "real world" where she was forced to choose between being open about her homosexuality or continue playing professional basketball. I couldn't believe they sent the women on the California team to charm school in order to "portray a feminine (that is, heterosexual) image." [311] The focus on this transition effectively illustrates the societal stifling of those perceived to be different, particularly those who challenge socially-encouraged gender roles. This transition is reflected in a sort of reverse in the following account "La Mujer," where the writer finds her individuality and strength when she is finally able to explore her identity after a stifling adolescence. -Erin B. | ||
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| + | My grandmother had to play half court basketball in a skirt when she was in school, so the fact that women had a professional basketball league at all was a huge step up. But men still resented and feared women's entrance into the realm of professional sports. Nelson's coach called the team girls so that he didn't have to take them seriously as adults (and perhaps so that they themselves would be fooled into thinking they didn't deserve to be treated as equals). Maybe these men thought that women playing sports would somehow take away from men sports, that if women could be strong and talented enough to play basketball that the men playing the same sport would lose their legitimacy somehow. After all, if a "girl" could do it, then what was so special about them? -Mary Ann | ||
==The Voice of the an Anorexic, Abra Fortune Chernik, 1995== | ==The Voice of the an Anorexic, Abra Fortune Chernik, 1995== | ||
