{{short description|Women's and LGBTQ studies historian}}
{{Infobox academic | name = Susan K. Cahn <!--there is a Susan Cahn who has a related dissertation from U. Michigan in 1981--> | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | workplaces = University of Buffalo | education = | alma_mater = University of Minnesota | thesis_title = Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport, 1900-1960 | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23257189 | thesis_year = 1990 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | awards = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> }} '''Susan Kathleen Cahn''' is a historian known for her work on women's studies and LGBTQ topics. She is a professor at the University of Buffalo.
== Education and career == Cahn has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1981) and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota (1985).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Cahn, Susan K. - University at Buffalo |url=https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/content/shared/arts-sciences/history/emeritus-profiles/cahn-susan.html |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=arts-sciences.buffalo.edu}}</ref> In 1990 she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in women's sport, 1900-1960 |date=1990 |language=English |first=Susan Kathleen |last=Cahn| oclc=23257189 }}</ref> In 1992 she joined the faculty at the University of Buffalo<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=HISTORY Matters - Department of History, University at Buffalo |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/41283205/history-matters-department-of-history-university-at-buffalo |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=yumpu.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=UB historian receives prestigious visiting fellowship at Vanderbilt |url=https://www.buffalo.edu/imsd/about-imsd/the-buffalo-niagara-region.host.html/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2013/10/057.detail.html |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=www.buffalo.edu |language=en}}</ref> where, as of 2022 Cahn is an emeritus professor.<ref name=":0" />
== Work == 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.<ref>Reviews for ''Coming on strong gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport'':
* {{Cite journal |last=Wachs |first=Faye Linda |date=1996 |title=Review of Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport; Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/189704 |journal=Gender and Society |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=355–357 |doi=10.1177/089124396010003012 |jstor=189704 |s2cid=220469417 |issn=0891-2432|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Del Rey |first=Patricia |date=1994 |title=Review of Women in Sport: Issues and Controversies; Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History; Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Women's Sport |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316363 |journal=NWSA Journal |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=497–501 |jstor=4316363 |issn=1040-0656}} * {{Cite journal |last=Tyrrell |first=Ian |date=1996 |title=Review of Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2945027 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=646–647 |doi=10.2307/2945027 |jstor=2945027 |issn=0021-8723|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Liberti |first=Rita |date=2007 |title=Review of Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43611781 |journal=Journal of Sport History |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=512–513 |jstor=43611781 |issn=0094-1700}} </ref> The book won an award from the North American Society for Sport History,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Liberti |first=Rita |date=2013 |title=Coming On [and Staying] Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.2.297 |journal=Journal of Sport History |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=297–307 |doi=10.5406/jsporthistory.40.2.297 |jstor=10.5406/jsporthistory.40.2.297 |s2cid=160911487 |issn=0094-1700|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Book Awards |url=https://www.nassh.org/awards/book-awards/ |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=NASSH |language=en}}</ref> and a second edition was published in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cahn |first=Susan K. |title=UI Press {{!}} Susan K. Cahn {{!}} Coming On Strong |url=https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p080647 |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=www.press.uillinois.edu |language=en}}</ref> Her work on the rise of women's sports teams,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cramer |first=Maria |date=2022-04-28 |title=How Women's Sports Teams Got Their Start |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/sports/title-ix-anniversary-womens-sports.html |access-date=2022-04-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and making women prove their sex<ref>{{Cite news |last=Padawer |first=Ruth |date=2016-06-28 |title=The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/the-humiliating-practice-of-sex-testing-female-athletes.html |access-date=2022-04-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> has been covered in multiple news outlets.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Compton |first=Julie |date=March 16, 2022 |title=Lia Thomas isn't the first female athlete whose victories have been questioned, experts say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lia-thomas-long-tradition-gender-policing-female-athletes-rcna20091 |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> In 2012 she wrote about women growing up in the south in ''Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age''.<ref>Reviews for ''Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age'' * {{Cite journal |last=Dorr |first=Lisa Lindquist |date=2009-06-01 |title=Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age . By Susan K. Cahn. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp.375. $29.95.) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00240_8.x |journal=The Historian |language=en |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=350–351 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00240_8.x |s2cid=144127849 |issn=0018-2370|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Moran |first=Jeffrey P. |date=2008 |title=Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1567 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=113 |issue=5 |pages=1567–1568 |doi=10.1086/ahr.113.5.1567 |issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Selected publications ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Cahn |first=Susan K. |date=1993 |title=From the "Muscle Moll" to the "Butch" Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sport |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178373 |journal=Feminist Studies |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=343–368 |doi=10.2307/3178373 |jstor=3178373 |issn=0046-3663|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Cahn |first=Susan K. |date=1994 |title=Sports Talk: Oral History and Its Uses, Problems, and Possibilities for Sport History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2081175 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=81 |issue=2 |pages=594–609 |doi=10.2307/2081175 |jstor=2081175 |issn=0021-8723|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite book |last=Cahn |first=Susan Kathleen |title=Coming on strong gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport |date=2003 |publisher=Harvard Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-674-14434-7 |location=Cambridge, Mass |language=English |oclc=249720598}} * {{Cite book |title=Women and sports in the United States : a documentary reader |date=2007 |publisher=Northeastern University Press |others=Jean O'Reilly, Susan K. Cahn |isbn=978-1-55553-787-6 |location=Boston |oclc=794003770}} * {{Cite book |last=Cahn |first=Susan K. |title=Sexual reckonings : southern girls in a troubling age |date=2012 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-06393-8 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |oclc=768071804}}
== Awards and honors == In 2013 Cahn was named a William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow by Vanderbilt University.<ref name=":1" /> In 2015, Cahn delivered the John R. Betts lecture at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-05-28 |title=Sport History at "The U": The Forty-Third Annual North American Society for Sport History Convention |url=https://ussporthistory.com/2015/05/28/sport-history-at-the-u-the-forty-third-annual-north-american-society-for-sport-history-convention/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Sport in American History |language=en}}</ref>
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