sports for women

Analyzes how girls and women reconcile social expectations and sports demands and discusses the costs and benefits of equal opportunities for men and women in sports.

Betsy Ross traces the history of women in sports, including women working as reporters, news anchors, coaches, administrators, athletes, and team doctors, and providing tips and insights from American sports columnist Christine Brennan, NASCAR racer Kelley Earnhardt, broadcaster Ann Liguori, and others.

Discusses how sports can influence a girl's life and profiles some of the most famous female athletes, including Rebecca Lobo, Mia Hamm, Gabrielle Reece, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Traces the history of women's sports from antiquity to the present.

Explores questions such as "Is fierce athletic competition changing women's nature?" with the champions and women who are not professionals but who love sports.

In 1926, Trudy Ederle swam the English Channel. She was the first woman and only the sixth person to do it. Here are the stories of five women sports pioneers.

Profiles twelve women athletes of the twentieth century including Wilma Rudolph, Nadia Comaneci, Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Gertrude Ederle, and others, and describes how they overcame gender and sometimes race discrimination and demonstrated their extraordinary skill and dedication.

Photographs and text describe the basic skills necessary for women's snowboarding, profiling a number of female Olympic medalists.

Profiles twelve women athletes of the twentieth century including Wilma Rudolph, Nadia Comaneci, Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Gertrude Ederle, and others, and describes how they overcame gender and sometimes race discrimination and demonstrated their extraordinary skill and dedication.