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INTERVIEW: Beth Boyle Machlan on discovering Amazons

In the 1970's, Don DeLillo created Cleo Birdwell, a woman who supposedly played for the New York Rangers, and published her "memoir" as a true story, though it was actually a totally fictional hockey-and-sex romp described as "literary vaudeville" by DeLillo's editor. In her piece on

Zoë Hayden

September 29, 2015

Nancy Theberge's book Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender was published in 2000. Seventeen years later, it's intriguing to read her book and see what's changed -- and what hasn't.