Robert Pruter is an independent scholar in both popular music history and in sport history. He is the author of His Chicago Soul and Doowop: The Chicago Scene as well as The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control: 1880-1930.

Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago: 1918-1941 contains a remarkable amount of intriguing information about women's athletics in Chicago during an important and often-overlooked period of women's sports history." - Rita Liberti, author of (Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph"Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago sheds light for the very first time, on a number of female athletes whose athletic achievements have, up until this writing, been lost to history. . . . Chicago, at the early decades of the twentieth century offers rich potential to understand subjective spaces around race, gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality amid the many tensions and issues connected to modernity." - Pamela Grundy, historian and author of Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball

Robert Pruter is an independent scholar in both popular music history and in sport history. He is the author of His Chicago Soul and Doowop: The Chicago Scene as well as The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control: 1880-1930.

Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago: 1918-1941 contains a remarkable amount of intriguing information about women's athletics in Chicago during an important and often-overlooked period of women's sports history." - Rita Liberti, author of (Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph"Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago sheds light for the very first time, on a number of female athletes whose athletic achievements have, up until this writing, been lost to history. . . . Chicago, at the early decades of the twentieth century offers rich potential to understand subjective spaces around race, gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality amid the many tensions and issues connected to modernity." - Pamela Grundy, historian and author of Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball