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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

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By Adrienne Rich — 1995

Adrienne Rich’s influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own―as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother―but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. See more...

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Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress. What Really Happens When We Stand on the Front Lines of Change.

What really happens on the front lines of change? For Kathryn Bertine, a former ESPN columnist and professional cyclist, advocating for gender equality wasn’t even on her radar in 2007. By 2017, everything changed.

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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.

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Beyond Triathlon: A Dual Memoir of Masters Women Athletes

Female students today never knew a time without Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which protects students from sex-based discrimination and exclusion in education programs or activities. It benefits all women, especially female athletes.

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The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions

The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model.

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Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes (The American Campus)

Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams.

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National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports.

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Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently

A fascinating look at how men and women approach competition both on and off the court. Noted author and lecturer Kathleen J. DeBoer first examines many of the non-physical differences between the sexes (their values and fears, conversation, behavior, psychological adjustment, etc.

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Eat Sweat Play: How Sport can Change our Lives

Why are women reluctant to play sports? What are the benefits for women playing sports? Eat Sweat Play answers these questions and more.

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Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

When Cyd Zeigler started writing about LGBT sports issues in 1999, no one wanted to talk about them. Today, this is a central conversation in American society that reverberates throughout the sports world and beyond.

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Feminism