sports for women

Discusses the history of women in sports, gender roles in sports, and equal rights in athletics.

Discusses how sports can positively influence the lives of girls during the adolescent years, and features profiles of some of the world's most famous female athletes including Rebecca Lobo, Mia Hamm, Gabrielle Reece, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Female athlete's discuss how their participation in sports has changed their lives, what inspires them, how they fulfilled their dreams, and other related topics.

Traces the history of women's participation in over thirty sports, including basketball, tennis, gynmastics, swimming, cycling, and skating, and includes brief biographies of more than 650 international athletes from the past and present, as well as a listing of statistics for each sport.

Provides an overview of the findings and recommendations of the Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics; assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Title IX; and offers two essays which argue that Title IX has harmed male sports and has not provided equal opportunities to females.

Provides information and advice for women on the benefits, problems, and pleasures of various sports.

Ordinary and celebrity women athletes are depicted winning, losing, and playing the games they love.

Explores the opportunities now becoming available to female athletes in a wide variety of sports and sports-related careers.

An introduction to the history, rules, fundamentals, and significant personalities of women's soccer that covers techniques, strategies, competitive events, and equipment.

An introduction to the sport of lacrosse, highlighting the accomplishments and triumphs of women involved in the sport, and describing the history, rules, equipment, and key skills of lacrosse.