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.
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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