Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader

by Susan K. Cahn and Jean O'Reilly

A spectacular transformation in women's sports has occurred over the past century in colleges, high schools, and recreational leagues across the nation. Gradual changes during the late 1950s and 1960s within the fields of women's physical education and amateur sport provided the initial energy for this transformation. But it took the rebirth of a grassroots feminist movement in the late 1960s and 1970s to catalyze the radical changes in women's athletic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555536719
• ISBN13: 9781555536718
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher