The challenges and achievements of female athletes in the U.S. are the focus of this collection of nearly 300 articles and biographies that portray the diversity, depth, and meaning of their sports experiences. Written by prominent experts as well as by the athletes themselves, these articles offer a unique, authoritative perspective on topics ranging from women's earliest involvement in sports through recent events at the 1997 world and national championships.
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"... a wonderful resource for the practising sport historian and for the prospective student of sport history." -- The International Journal of the History of Sport, Sept, 1999
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CAROLE A. OGLESBY is a professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, and a contributor to the 1996 Report of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport: Physical Activity and the Adolescent Female.
DOREEN L. GREENBERG is a nationally certified consultant in sport psychology and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sport Psychology Registry.
RUTH LOUISE HALL is a licensed psychologist and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at The College of New Jersey.
KAREN L. HILL is an associate professor in the College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Campus, and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sport Psychology Registry.
FRANCES JOHNSTON is the founder and president of Management & Organizational Development Learning Systems, Inc.(MODLS), a Philadelphia-based consulting firm whose client list includes NIKE, Merrill Lynch, and Fleer/Skybox.
SHEILA EASTERBY RIDLEY is an instructor at Pennsylvania State University, Berks Lehigh Valley College, Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Born on November 7, 1959, in Lakewood, New Jersey, Ackerman attended the University of Virginia from 1977 to 1981. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, Women's Sports Foundation, Los Angeles, Special Olympics, Pan American Games, World War, National Federation, Amateur Athletic Union, Colorado Springs, Flo Hyman, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Billie Jean King, North Carolina, Asian American, Ladies Professional Golf Association, South Korea, Native American, Winter Games, Long Beach, New Jersey, Wilma Rudolph, Lake Placid, Olympic Ganes New!
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Born on November 7, 1959, in Lakewood, New Jersey, Ackerman attended the University of Virginia from 1977 to 1981. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, Women's Sports Foundation, Los Angeles, Special Olympics, Pan American Games, World War, National Federation, Amateur Athletic Union, Colorado Springs, Flo Hyman, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Billie Jean King, North Carolina, Asian American, Ladies Professional Golf Association, South Korea, Native American, Winter Games, Long Beach, New Jersey, Wilma Rudolph, Lake Placid, Olympic Ganes New!
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- Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernity (Sport in the Global Society) by Sherry Mckay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sports for Her: A Reference Guide for Teenage Girls by Penny Hastings on page 189, and Back Matter
- A Drive to Win: The Story of Nancy Lieberman-Cline (Anything You Can Do... New Sports Heroes for Girls) by Doreen Greenberg in Back Matter
- Feminist Sport Studies: Sharing Experiences Of Joy And Pain (S U N Y Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) by Pirkko Markula in Back Matter
- Exercise and Sport in Feminist Therapy: Constructing Modalities and Assessing Outcomes by Ruth Hall in Front Matter
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