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Both a gathering and a celebration, Nike brings together some of the best women writers on sports to chronicle, sport by sport, the struggles and the politics that permeate the arena, and the achievements of the achievers who've broken through to rise above. "The story of women in sports," writes former Stanford basketball star Mariah Burton Nelson in the introduction, "is a personal story, because nothing is more personal than a woman's bone, sinew, sweat and desire, and a political story, because nothing is more powerful than a woman's struggle to be free."
Sport by sport, the history of women in sports unfolds in sweeping, breezy narratives: Shelley Smith on basketball, Grace Lichtenstein on tennis, Malanie Hauser on golf, Amy Nutt on baseball, Karen Karbo on swimming, Kathleen McElroy on track and field--and the list goes on. And, of course, heroes emerge: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Althea Gibson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Gertrude Ederle, Billie Jean King, and scores of others who've slipped through memory's net and are finally rescued here.
Clearly assembled to inspire, Nike indeed does. But it also instructs. "This book shows what women can do when they work hard, when they team up, when they hurdle the barriers that are placed in front of them," writes Nelson. "It's about them, but it's also about us. By revealing their past, it points the way toward our future." And in Nike, so much of what's revealed borders on revelation. --Jeff Silverman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The pithy title promises a more powerful punch than is actually delivered in this collection of longwinded essays by women sportswriters on women's successes and struggles in 13 different sports. With the current wave of interest in female athletes this book is intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the topic: "Compared to the relentless daily barrage of information about male athletes, news about women's accomplishments is still strangely sketchy and distorted," writes Nelson. But most of the essays, in giving detailed historical overviews of the key figures and events in each sport, lack focus and read like chapters of a textbook, only not as well organized. The exceptions are Grace Lichtenstein's examination of great tennis rivalries, and Michelle Kaufman's eloquent analysis of figure skating. Beyond these, the interesting stories?such as Anita DeFrantz, the rower who led would-be Olympians in the fight against Jimmy Carter's 1980 boycott?are lost among endless anecdotes and dry statistics. If it's the facts you're after, skip to the back of the book, where a timeline from 776 B.C. to the present tells more about women in sports.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Almost anyone can run or jump, but few can make a sport of it, and even fewer command attention because of the speed, height, or distance they achieve in such rudimentary skills. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female hockey players, competitive rowing, triple axel, giant slalom, racing commission, women players, female players Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Billie Jean, America's Cup, Los Angeles, Mary Lou, World War, Bloomer Girls, Little League, Soviet Union, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Hall of Fame, East German, Mia Hamm, North Carolina, Babe Didrikson, Hunt Cup, North America, Steffi Graf, Forest Hills, New Jersey, San Francisco, Sports Illustrated, Tennessee State, Women's Open New!
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Almost anyone can run or jump, but few can make a sport of it, and even fewer command attention because of the speed, height, or distance they achieve in such rudimentary skills. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female hockey players, competitive rowing, triple axel, giant slalom, racing commission, women players, female players Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Billie Jean, America's Cup, Los Angeles, Mary Lou, World War, Bloomer Girls, Little League, Soviet Union, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Hall of Fame, East German, Mia Hamm, North Carolina, Babe Didrikson, Hunt Cup, North America, Steffi Graf, Forest Hills, New Jersey, San Francisco, Sports Illustrated, Tennessee State, Women's Open New!
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- Behind the Scenes (Puffin Books) by "Early Times" in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America by Alison Piepmeier in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wilma Rudolph (Sports Heroes and Legends) by Thomas Streissguth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Go Girl! by Jenkins in Back Matter
- Sports Parenting Edge by Rick Wolff in Back Matter
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