 | O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs Subjects: Immaculata College -- Basketball -- History; Immaculata Mighty Macs (Basketball team) -- History; Basketball for women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History; This is the remarkable story of the first stars of women's basketball. In the early 1970s, few women participated in organized athletics, but in Catholic Philadelphia, women's basketball was already a well-established, thirty-year tradition. In this vivid account of Immaculata basketball, Julie Byrne explores the unusual lives of these young women, the rare opportunities and pleasures they were allowed, their religious culture, and the broader ideas of womanhood that they inspired and helped redefine. Julie Byrne is an assistant professor of religion at Duke University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. |
