Mary Jo Festle, associate professor of history, is quoted in a Sept. 28 Boston Globe story on “Gender Games” in athletics. The story notes that female athletes are challenging the stereotypes of physical inferiority in sports.
Festle is the author of “Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women’s Sports.”
Click on this link: http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/women/articles/2003/09/28/gender_games to read the story.