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Cowgirls of the Rodeo: PIONEER PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES (Sport and Society)

Mary LeCompte

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Great Read 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you are at all interested in the lives of rodeo women and the history behind the Women's Professional Rodeo Association, this is a great book. I enjoyed it very much and have used it as a resource when writing articles for western related articles.

Editorial Review:

"In this first substantial study of rodeo women, Mary Lou Lecompte surveys the early rodeo cowgirls' achievements as professional athletes, the near demise of women's rodeo events during World War II, and the phenomenal success of the Women's Professional Rodeo Association in regaining lost ground for rodeo cowgirls. Recalling an extraordinary chapter in women's history as well as the history of American sport, "Cowgirls of the Rodeo" contributes to a deeper understanding of the challenges facing women in the American West and in American sport."

The Cruising Woman's Advisor: How to Prepare for the Voyaging Life

Diana Jessie

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Editorial Review:

For a woman considering the cruising lifestyle, the questions are endless. What is cruising really like? Can I do it? Will I like it? will it be horrible, or wonderful? Longtime sailor and circumnavigator Diana Jessie provides advice to women contemplating short-term cruising or long-term voyaging. She gives unique insights into a plethora of women's concerns, including: Why We Go . . . Cruising Roles and Relationships . . . The Right Boat . . . What Do I Need to Learn? . . . If My Partner Falls Overboard, How Do I Rescue Him? . . . Learning for Independence . . . Fearing the Weather Ahead . . . Isn't It Dangerous Out There? . . . Medical Preparation and Planning . . . Children On Board . . . Family Issues and Events . . . Staying in Touch . . . Career Planning and Employment . . . Bathing, Hair Care, Skin Care, Clothing . . . Sex at Sea . . . Provisioning for Cruising

To provide a broad perspective, Diana Jessie includes the opinions of noted women cruisers, including: Barbara Merritt, contributing editor of Cruising World magazine; Lin Pardey, longtime cruiser and author of several cruising books; Dawn Riley, noted America's Cup and Whitbread sailor; Patience Wales, two-time circumnavigator and editor of SAIL magazine; plus seventeen other women, from novices to world-renowned sailors.

How to Be Like Women Athletes of Influence: 32 Women at the Top of Their Game and How You Can Get There Too (How to Be Like Series)

Pat Williams

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Editorial Review:

These women have got game . . . and you can get yours, too!

With 32 never-before-heard interviews and stories about some of the world's most contemporary top athletes and sports pioneers, How to Be Like Women Athletes of Influence celebrates the exciting growth of women's sports . . . and the fearless, multitalented women who are making it happen.

From the locker rooms to the board rooms to the training rooms, Orlando Magic Senior Vice President Pat Williams and sports writer Dana Pennett O'Neil have interviewed many top athletes in every major sport—plus their rivals, coaches, and contemporaries—to give insights, advice, and inspiration to any budding athlete.

· Serena and Venus Williams • · Michelle Kwan • · Annika Sorenstam · Steffi Graf • · Dorothy Hamill • · Mia Hamm • · Jackie Joyner Kersee · Michelle Akers • · Bonnie Blair • · Nadia Comaneci • · Gail Devers · Babe Didrikson • · Chris Evert • · Lisa Fernandez • · Peggy Fleming · Althea Gibson • · Billie Jean King • · Julie Krone • · Lisa Leslie · Nancy Lopez • · Shannon Miller • · Martina Navratilova • · Dot Richardson · Mary Lou Retton • · Wilma Rudolph • · Joan Benoit Samuelson · Dawn Staley • · Pat Summitt •
· Jenny Thompson

100 Classic Golf Tips from Leading Ladies' Teaching and Touring Pros (100 Golf Tips)

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For more than forty years, in the pages of Sports Illustrated, Anthony Ravielli documented the techniques of the world’s finest women golfers, including Glenna Colette Vere, Babe Zaharias, and Betsy Rawls. Ravielli’s art captures the intricacies of the game with more detail and beauty than any photograph could. Here, his illustrations are paired with timeless advice and helpful hints from today’s top teachers and players on the ladies’ circuit—from Kathy Whitworth and Jo Ann Carner to Micki Wright and Anneka Soramstam—as well as from the coaches and heroes who inspired them to rise to the top in what was once a man’s game. This marvelous companion to 100 Classic Golf Tips is a unique and invaluable instructional guide and an inspiration to women golfers of any level.

Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Body Building

Leslie Heywood

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Women with muscles are a recent phenomenon, so recent that, while generating a good deal of interest, both positive and negative, their importance to the cultural landscape has yet to be acknowledged. This newness, along with the ways in which muscular women challenge traditional ideas that associate women with physical weakness and incompetence, femininity with diminution and childishness, and the female body with softness, has led to a widely held belief, both inside body building circles and without, that the cultural implications of female body building are limited to a small subculture. Leslie Heywood looks at the sport and image of female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in our current political and cultural climate. Drawing on contemporary feminist and cultural theory as well as her own involvement in the sport, she argues that the movement in women's body building from small, delicate bodies to large powerful ones and back again is directly connected to progress and backlash within the abortion debate, the ongoing struggle for race and gender equality, and the struggle to define "feminism" in the context of the nineties. She discusses female body building as activism, as an often effective response to abuse, race and masculinity in body building, and the contradictory ways that photographers treat female body builders. "Bodymakers" also reveals how female body builders find themselves both trapped and empowered by their sport.

Powerboating: A Woman's Guide

Sandy Lindsey

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Editorial Review:

For the past decade, women have been the fastest-growing segment of the powerboating population. This latest book in the popular Ragged Mountain Press Woman’s Guides series delivers a timely, top-to-bottom introduction to powerboating. Addressing a vast range of issues that concern women particularly, author and veteran boater Sandy Lindsey covers everything readers need to know, from getting started and driving the boat to reading weather and mastering the art of anchoring. Powerboating also considers the details of effective maintenance. Best of all, readers are presented with a rich spectrum of perspectives, opinions, advice, and anecdotes from many powerboating women, each of whom has loads of real-life experience.

The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide: How to Win the Battle Against Eating Disorders, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis

Carol L., M.D. Otis, Roger Goldingay

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The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a must for all active women. This book has everything! I especially enjoyed the comprehensive case studies of accomplished women athletes and how they took control of their health issues. This book covers, in depth, eating disorders and how to overcome them. It also covers all women's health issues from menstruation to injuries to everyday aches and pains. Extremely valuable information and sound and compassionate medical expertise are key elements of this book. I highly recommend this book for ALL women, young or old. It is a valuable resource.

Covers a gamut of issues concerning women athletes 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide covers a gamut of issues concerning women athletes including eating disorders, amenorrhea, osteoporosis, body image. One of the most important chapters is on getting and giving help, forming a support team, getting referrals, the journey to recovery while continuing training, and communicating effectively with family, friends, teammates, and coaches. The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide concludes with an excellent chapter on "Peak Performance: Preventing the Triad" and sites specifically what the woman athlete can do, what her friends can do, what her family can do, what schools and organizations can do, what their men can do, and what coaches and athletic departments can do to assist the woman athlete to thrive, prosper, and perform in the competitive world of athletic competition. Highly recommended for personal, professional, and athletic department reference libraries, The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide is enhanced with references, resource lists, and a comprehensive index.

Editorial Review:

Avoid and overcome the female athlete triad. World expert Dr. Carol L. Otis provides practical guidelines based on sports medicine and athletes’ inspiring experiences. Composed of disordered eating, amenorrhea (lack of monthly menstrual cycles), and osteoporosis (thin bones), the triad can be treated and prevented so women can train, compete, and stay healthy all at the same time.

Woman the Hunter

Mary Zeiss Stange

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A fine, original work 5 out of 5 stars.
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We are not that far removed from the time when we were all hunters, and Mary Zeiss Stange understands that better than most. How refreshing to read a book on hunting by a feminist! Too often we hear "Men are hunters and women are gatherers." This book shows how the hunting spirit lies within us all.

Stange is an observant hunter and a skilled writer. She understands the hunt, a very rare perception in this world of post-modern nitwits who don't understand where their meals come from, let alone the basic life cycles.

I doubt this book's biggest detractors have even read it. Read it with an open mind, and learn to see the world through the only eyes we possess...the eyes of hunters.

Editorial Review:

When women take up weapons for the explicit purpose of killing, they are shattering one of Western culture's oldest taboos. Experienced hunter and teacher Mary Zeiss Stange demonstrates how false assumptions about women and about hunting permeate contemporary thought. Stange's book is a profound critique of our society's evasion of issues that make us uncomfortable. Bibliography.

The Game and the Glory

Michelle Akers, Gregg Lewis

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And I'm not even a soccer fan! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great book for a young girl because it feels like Michelle is talking to you. I felt like I was her best friend, because I could relate to her family situation, and like her, I'm a tomboy. I don't care for soccer, but now I have a giant Michelle Akers poster hanging in my room, and I feel like I know her well even though I've never seen her play. I recommend this to any girl, ages 8-15.

Michelle is awesome, and her faith is unsurpassed 5 out of 5 stars.
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I know I would love this book even if the writing sucked, which it doesn't...it's beatiful. Still, I'm bias. Michelle has been my role model as a soccer player for years, and I've always her respected her deep faith in Jesus Christ. I'm Catholic. I think Michelle's faith is wonderful, after all she has been through. And the fact that she is grateful for her suffering makes her, in my eyes, a true follower of Jesus.

You will enjoy the thoughts of this excellent (tough as nails) soccer player, and Christian who inspires many others who share her faith. Go USA!

PS. Since this book was written, Michelle has retired.

Editorial Review:

In addition to leading her teams to two World Cups and an Olympic Gold, Michelle Akers is a spokeswoman for the cause of soccer, women in general, and Jesus Christ. Her award-filled career, including the physical, personal, and spiritual struggles she has overcome, is the subject of this book.

Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America (Sport and Society)

Sarah K. Fields

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Prompts far too many questions 2 out of 5 stars.
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Female Gladiators, part legal and social history, documents the beginnings of Title IX. Moreover she examines the schoolgirls who filed lawsuits using Title IX in order to compete in contact sports and the various communities that attempted to resisit female involvement in contact sports. . Although not fully indicative of the atmosphere surrounding Title IX and gender inequality and prompting far more questions than it actually answers, the result remains a decent contribution to gender and sports studies that historians may want to examine.
She ignores the monster Title IX has created and the detrimental effects its implementation has had on male athletics. Also some of her contentions seem quite speculative, particularly in regards to boxing. She ignores the fact that many may view female boxers as a spectacle rather than a true sporting event. She attempts to address this issue but also seems equally determined to discount its importance.
Just as problematic is the apparent naiveté Fields holds for the changes in the American sporting landscape due to Title IX. She seems to believe that cultural change should occur far swifter than it has. Fields asserts, especially concerning football, that opposition to female participation remains very high. For the author, this appears a travesty. Cultural changes transpire slowly, especially in sporting practices. Fields, however, ignores this concept and despite the massive progress Title IX has made seemingly believes that football, America's true sporting passion, should be far more open to female participation than it is.
Fields could have but chose not to ascertain the motivations of those that challenged discriminatory sporting practices. Why did girls want to play these sports? Did they want to play with the boys because they had grown up playing with the boys? Were they pushed into playing or attempting to participate in certain sports by overzealous fathers? Did they wish to garner attention? While these questions may not be entirely pertinent to her foremost focus, they would offer a better understanding of the individuals challenging unfair sporting practices and thus furthering Title IX's enforcement. Moreover, Fields ignores the (arguable) harm Title IX has brought to male athletics. Forced to provide equitable scholarships across the athletic board, many universities choose to drop certain male sports rather than begin new female sports. Again, this is not the primary point of her work, but it certainly cannot be ignored in any Title IX discussion. Despite its flaws and weaknesses, the text does a good job documenting the beginnings of Title IX. Moreover, the work illustrates how Title IX eventually enforced equal sporting access for females and manifested into the nightmare that many male athletic directors continue to fear and resent at present.

Editorial Review:

Female Gladiators examines the legal and social history of the right of women to participate with men in contact sports. The impetus to begin legal proceedings was the 1972 enactment of Title IX, which prohibited discrimination in educational settings, but it was the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the equal rights amendments of state constitutions that ultimately opened doors. Despite court rulings, however, many in American society resisted--and continue to resist--allowing girls in dugouts and other spaces traditionally defined as male territories. When the leagues continued to bar girls simply because they were not boys, the girls went to court. Sarah K. Fields examines the legal and cultural conflicts over gender and contact sports that continue to rage today.