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The Necessary Hunger.
From: The Women's Review of Books
Date: 19980201
Author:Sandoz, Joli
Stories imaging women in competitive sport have been in print since at least 1895. In Abbe Carter Goodloe's short story "Revenge," published that year, sportswomen ran a newspaper reporter ragged, paying him back on golf course and tennis court for treating them as objects of fun. Authors ranging from Mary Roberts Rinehart and Fannie Hurst to Ellen Gilchrist, Toni Cade Bambara, Carol Anshaw and Jenifer Levin have crafted fiction about sportswomen; the names of Wimbledon champions Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills (Moody), Helen Jacobs and Martina Navratilova each appear in at least one ...
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