Winning Ways: A Photohistory of Women in Sports [Paperback]

Sue Macy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1998

Losing a favourite toy can be a disaster for a child. And when Henry is lost, the little boy inside this book hunts high and low for him, but Henry is nowhere to be found.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

More than 100 photos illustrate the past century of women's sports, from the first females on bicycles to Martina Navratilova and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Polaris (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590763369
• ISBN-13: 978-0590763363
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,322,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Sporty Book, November 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Winning Ways: A Photohistory of Women in Sports (Paperback)

This book is about women in sports throughout history, and how they have changed sports for girls today. In this book you will learn about women, such as, Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. You will also fund out about many other women. This book will give you pictures of these spectaculer women athletes. This will give you a whole new way to look at women in sports and how the got there.

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Women's History - Great Photos, July 9, 2010

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Kathleen Odean "Great Books for Girls author" (Rhode Island) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning Ways: A Photohistory of Women in Sports (Paperback)

If you are interested in girls and women in sports, get this book. I'm sorry to see it's out of print but check your library. It is a wonderful history of girls and women in sports in the U.S., including early female basketball players and women who played tennis in long skirts. Look at the photo sequence of a woman in the 1970s who signed up with her initials to run the Boston Marathon--which was only open to men. You'll see an official in a suit running after her trying to tear off her marathon number. What were they so afraid of? You'll learn about that sort of bias against women but also about amazing women who went ahead anyway and pursued their sport. Winning Ways is entertaining and informative, a terrific read.