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Athlete Well-Being & gender discriminationbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Athlete Well-Being and gender discrimination.

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State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality—or at least the closest that one high...

Melissa Isaacson

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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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LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality

In 2015, the world watched as soccer star Abby Wambach kissed her wife after the US women's World Cup victory. Milwaukee Brewers' minor league first baseman David Denson came out as gay. And Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner, an Olympic decathlete, came out as transgender. It hasn't always been this way.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Alex Jackson Nelson

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Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

In a society that is digging deep into the misogyny underlying our traditions and media, the world of sports is especially fertile ground.

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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.

Celeste Callahan, Dottie Dorion, Jane E. Hunt

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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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Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association—the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position—comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S.

Katrina M. Adams

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The National Team (Updated and Expanded Edition): The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer

"The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team has won four 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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One Life

Only four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball, Megan Rapinoe developed a love—and clear talent—for the game at a young age. But it was her parents who taught her that winning was much less important than how she lived her life.

Megan Rapinoe, Emma Brockes

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Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture

Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess.

Hilary Levey Friedman

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