Katharina Bonzel – Screening the Past

A League of Their Own: The Impossibility of the Female Sports Hero

Post author:Katharina Bonzel
Post published:October 5, 2013
Post category:Issue 37 - First Release

“Every girl in this league is going to be a lady.” (Ira Lowenstein [David Strathairn] commenting on the female athletes in A League of their Own [USA 1992]) This line…