From the Book - Research Collections - 1st ed.
Before frailty ; Behold the cult of invalidism ; Masculinity crisis ; Out of confinement ; Shattering the menstrual myth
Two : Incredible shrinking woman
Becoming feminine : the gender effect ; Learned weakness ; Throwing like a guy : the mystique of innate ability ; Comparisons (or, are we fated to be weaker?) ; Shrinking bodies, shrinking brains
Three : Getting them out of the doll corner
Perceived physical competence ; Coaching factor ; Dad factor ; Crossing the swinging rope bridge : programs for change
Shrinking self-image ; Adolescence : the crisis years ; Entering the war zone ; Double bind
Five : Can I play? : the struggle to get into the game
Title IX, or, the fight for a physical education ; Suing for the right to play ; Admission into the ultimate game : the Olympics ; Winning as we'd never imagined ; Abominable sex tests ; Media, marketing, and the new female contender
Six : Closing the strength gap
Men's fear of women's strength ; Myth of the mannish woman ; New ways of assessing performance ; Backlash ; Estrogen effect ; New physical woman ; Going the distance
Seven : Physical equality : the final stage
Physical assault : keeping women down ; Trauma : Freud's little detour ; Dangerous lessons in passive resistance ; Fighting back ; Unlearning passivity
