Playing to Win by Levey Friedman Hilary

Author:Levey Friedman, Hilary
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520276758
Publisher: University of California Press

After Lois took over the leadership of the chess club at Lottie’s school she recruited girls from Lottie’s class so that the girls could hang out while playing at chess tournaments and events. Lois told me that they attended the all-girls national chess tournament “in part because [she] felt it was important to show solidarity with other girl players.”

While not all girls who play chess will be aggressive, chess does provide an opportunity for those who want to be more competitive to do so in head-to-head pairings. Lois’ comment captures the various forms of competitive femininity that can exist side-by-side in the pink warrior gender script and in girls’ lives today: “Other girls, like her friend Donna, if she was playing a good friend of hers, she would figure out a way to have a draw so that there was no winner and no loser. Lottie never cared about that. She would play her grandmother, her best friend, anyone, even her four-year-old sister and she just wants to win. So, chess has seemed like a good fit for her.”

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