"Former athlete and coach Pat Griffin makes a provocative and impassioned call for attention to a topic that has been avoided by women's sports advocates. In Strong Women, Deep Closets, she provides a critical analysis of discrimination and prejudice against lesbians in sport." "The book is the first to explore the lesbian sporting experience as well as examine homophobia and heterosexism in women's sport. The work brings to light the experiences of lesbian coaches and athletes in their own words." "The author lists obstacles lesbian athletes face in transforming sports and details numerous personal and political strategies for leveling the playing field."--BOOK JACKET.

1.My Journey Home -- 2. Sport: Where Men Are Men and Women Are Trespassers -- 3. Damaged Mothers, Muscle Molls, Mannish Lesbians, and Predatory Dykes: 100 Years of Scaring Women Out of Sport -- 4. Leering, Leching, and Low Down: Demonizing Lesbians in Sport -- 5. Full Court Press: Defending Women's Sport Against the Lesbian Boogeywoman -- 6. Life in the Shadow of the Lesbian Boogeywoman: The Climate for Lesbians in Sport -- 7. We Prey, They Pray? Lesbians and Evangelical Christians in Sport -- 8. The Culture of the Closet: Identity-Management Strategies of Lesbian College Coaches and Athletes -- 9. Unplayable Lies: Lesbians in Sport Choosing Truth -- 10. Love and Community in the Locker Room: Double Trouble or Double Standards? -- 11. Opening Minds, Opening Closet Doors: Transforming Women's Sport.