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Looks at the life of the professional golfer, the public persona she created, her life as she lived it, and her lesbianism
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the premier female athlete of her era, beginning with two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics and extending through a professional golf career that ended just before her death in 1956. Cayleff, professor of women's studies at San Diego State, examines this unique life from three perspectives: Babe's life as she lived it; the public persona Babe created in order to cope with the attitudes and mores of the times; and, finally, Babe's lesbianism. Unable to acknowledge her sexuality, Babe was forced to manufacture a palatable lifestyle for public consumption; hence, her marriage to professional wrestler George Zaharias. In researching her subject, Cayleff relies on Didrikson's sanitized autobiography, subsequent biographies, newspaper accounts, and interviews with family and friends, including the woman with whom Babe shared an intimate relationship, fellow golfer Betty Dodd. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of an astute, gifted woman forced to cope with a society that grudgingly approved of her athleticism but wasn't willing to deal with her sexuality. Wes Lukowsky
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"Supremely gifted, [Zaharias] was brash, coarse, and loud, and this biography tells her story wonderfully." -- Library Journal. "A masterful portrait of a complex woman whose innate sense of showmanship allowed her to use her athletic gifts to create a mythic self. She always played in two games: the athletic contest and the mythic drama that made the contest matter." -- Sport History Review
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- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0252017935
- ISBN 13 9780252017933
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages327
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