Susan Cahn

Cahn has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1981) and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota (1985).[1] In 1990 she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.[2] In 1992 she joined the faculty at the University of Buffalo[3][4] where, as of 2022 Cahn is an emeritus professor.[1]

Cahn is known for her writing on women in sports, adolescence, lesbian history, and chronic illness. Her 1995 book, Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-century Women's Sport examines the role of Title IX in gender equality in sports participation.[5] The book won an award from the North American Society for Sport History,[6][7] and a second edition was published in 2015.[8] Her work on the rise of women's sports teams,[9] and making women prove their sex[10] has been covered in multiple news outlets.[11] In 2012 she wrote about women growing up in the south in Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.[12]

• Cahn, Susan K. (1993). "From the "Muscle Moll" to the "Butch" Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sport". Feminist Studies. 19 (2): 343–368. doi:10.2307/3178373. ISSN 0046-3663. JSTOR 3178373.
• Cahn, Susan K. (1994). "Sports Talk: Oral History and Its Uses, Problems, and Possibilities for Sport History". The Journal of American History. 81 (2): 594–609. doi:10.2307/2081175. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2081175.
• Cahn, Susan Kathleen (2003). Coming on strong gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-674-14434-7. OCLC 249720598.
• Women and sports in the United States : a documentary reader. Jean O'Reilly, Susan K. Cahn. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-55553-787-6. OCLC 794003770.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Cahn, Susan K. (2012). Sexual reckonings : southern girls in a troubling age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-06393-8. OCLC 768071804.

In 2013 Cahn was named a William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow by Vanderbilt University.[4] In 2015, Cahn delivered the John R. Betts lecture at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History.[13]