ABSTRACT
Chris Weedon implicitly challenges scholars in the field of gender analysis to explore how masculine hegemony is deployed in cultural contexts: "Men have hardly begun to look at the social construction of masculinity and the ways in which patriarchal power is exercised through subject positions open only, or most often, to them". A lesbian herself, Yvonne Zipter wrote about how lesbian communities in the United States have worked to forge a safe political and social space organized around recreational Softball leagues. Softball, a game very similar to baseball has emerged within lesbian communities as an often unspoken but implicitly recognized rallying activity, in which women might meet other lesbians in an open, socially acceptable context. Vanalyne Green's film, a self-made videotape, approximately thirty minutes in duration, depicts her interaction with and interpretation of baseball, situating it within her biography.
