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"A League of Their Own" Essays, Women's History Month

6 min read

Two sets of rules

by Amy Wasney

April 18, 2019

When men participate, it's an event. When women participate, it's a show. In video games, male characters wear full suits of armor; female characters wear metal bikinis. In comic books
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"A League of Their Own" Essays, personal essay, Women's History Month

11 min read

Sisters, doing it for themselves

by Marjorie H. Morgan

April 17, 2019

Everybody loves an underdog story, and everybody loves a sports story. "A League of Their Own" (1992) is a combination of both genres. The underdog is this case is the
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"A League of Their Own" Essays, Women's History Month

6 min read

‘A League of Their Own’: The hero is the sidekick

by Jaylan Salah

April 10, 2019

I rooted for Kit, and even though I realized I really wanted the sisters to make up at the end, Marshall gave me that underdog I could not take my
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