Women As They Age

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In the eleven years since the publication of the original Women as They Age, there has been a great deal of research on the subject. This second edition is inclusive and current, providing valuable information on the needs and accomplishments of our present and future older population. Here you'll encounter women from the mainstream and minorities of all kinds. You'll come to a better understanding of their personal and family relationships, their sexuality, their concerns, and their feelings about death and dying. Public policies towards aging women are discussed, as are psychological and sociological perspectives. Women as They Age, Second Edition will bring you enlightenment about this very special segment of humanity.

New subjects covered in this edition include: grandmothers raising grandchildren long-term care for aging women the current status of public policy as it pertains to older women older women's changing perspectives on sexuality new issues surrounding death and dying

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Examines social and medical issues relating to aging women.......2001-07-06

The second edition of J. Dianne, Dsw Garner and Susan O., Dsw Mercer's Women As They Age updates information about being an aging woman in a youth-oriented society, examining social and medical issues relating to aging women.

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They Called Her Molly Pitcher
Anne Rockwell
Manufacturer: Dragonfly Books
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ASIN: 0553112538
Release Date: 2006-08-22

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The rousing true tale of an American Revolution heroine.

When her husband joined General Washington’s army, Molly Hays went with him. All through the winter at Valley Forge, Molly watched and listened. Then in July, in the battle at Monmouth, she would show how much she had learned. Molly could tell the day would be a scorcher, so she decided to bring water from a nearby spring to the fighting men. More than 50 British soldiers would die of heatstroke that day, but the American soldiers need only cry, “Molly–pitcher!” On one trip through the fighting field, she saw her husband get shot. She satisfied herself that he wouldn’t die from his wound, then took over his job–firing off the cannon!

Molly epitomized the feisty, self-reliant spirit of the colonists who would soon win their battle for independence–and her story has rightly become a beloved legend of American history.

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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger

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not worth the effort
I Feel Them, Too
A smart, funny, and astute look at L.A. today

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger
Amy Wilentz
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 0743264398

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From one of our most astute contemporary writers, Amy Wilentz, comes an irreverent, inventive portrait of the state of California and its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The prizewinning author, a lifelong easterner and an outsider in the West, takes the reader on a picaresque journey from exclusive Hollywood soirees to a fantasy city in the Mojave desert, from the La Brea Tar Pits to celebrity-besotted Sacramento, from the tents of Skid Row to surf-drunk Malibu, from a snowbird retreat near Mexico to the hippie preserve of tide-beaten Big Sur, along the way offering up sharp observations on politics, fund-raising, the water supply, the Beach Boys, earthquake preparedness, home economics, catastrophism, movie-star politicians, political movie stars, Charlie Manson, and location scouts who want to rent your house in order to make television commercials for bathroom wall cleansers or Swedish banks.

Wilentz moved to Los Angeles from a Manhattan wounded by September 11, only to discover a paradise marred by fire, flood, and mudslides. In what seemed like a joke to her, a Democratic governor nicknamed Gumby was about to be ousted by an Austrian muscleman in a bizarre election promoted by a millionaire whose business was car alarms. Intrigued, she set out to find the essence of the quirky, trailblazing state. During her travels, she spots celebrities but can't quite place them, drops in on famous salons with habitués like Warren Beatty and Arianna Huffington, and visits the neglected office of one very special 9,000-year-old woman.

Plunging into the traffic of California, Wilentz noodles out meaning in some of the least likely of places; she sees the political in the personal and the personal in the political. By now an expert on tremors real and imagined, she offers readers on both coasts insights into where California stands today, and America as well.

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L.A. Times Book Review.......2007-01-11

From the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Aug. 13, 2006
Entitled, "Barbarians at the Beach"

When writers visit Los Angeles, they often find Something Very Wrong here. It's a noir something. A darkness-hiding-in-the-sunlight something. A vapid-facade, tragic-narcissistic, dystopic-unease sort of problem. We Angelenos failed to create paradise, and we must pay the price. Too much wealth and too much poverty lurk behind those bright lawns and giddy hibiscus, so our town's bound to see trouble.

Occasionally, the SVW manifests itself in biblical fashion with an earthquake, a fire or a flood. Sometimes, it surfaces with a perilous flash in the life of a Sharon Tate, an O.J. Simpson, a Phil Spector or a Robert Blake.

Whatever the SVW may be exactly -- fate or hubris or just something in the air -- it has grown into a recognized discipline, like cosmology or anthropology. And along with distinguished researchers like Nathanael West, Raymond Chandler and Joan Didion, it attracts many lesser poets, novelists, filmmakers and commentators. Some, like social critic Mike Davis, have built entire careers on the SVW: proving its existence, discovering its habits and demonstrating its power. Just last year, an SVW flick named "Crash" won the Academy Award for best picture.

With "I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen," journalist Amy Wilentz makes a lively, if modest, contribution to the field. She doesn't much like L.A., and she claims that California "has a dark heart," but that only places her in the mainstream of the SVW tradition. She sets out to update us on the improbabilities of life in the pueblo since her arrival in early 2002, she takes us inside L.A.'s salon culture and she deftly chronicles one of our most successful commercial products: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Wilentz is a seasoned traveler. She's covered Haiti and the Mideast for the New Yorker and the Nation. Still, she asks us to picture her as a wide-eyed everywoman, another innocent Manhattanite tossed up, however reluctantly, on our shores: "I didn't want to be in a place where -- according to the tropes, clichés, and stereotypes that I'd absorbed as a proper New Yorker -- everyone was blond, tan, cute, strong-jawed, empty-headed, and athletic, and possibly spiritually inclined. I was dark, bespectacled, bookish, and both physically and mentally not tan. I did not belong in L.A."

Still, her husband, Nick Goldberg, lands a job at the L.A. Times, (he is editor of the op-ed page and the Current section) and she hopes to escape the anxiety of New York after 9/11 -- where she had actually bought an inflatable boat in case she had to escape across the Hudson. Not surprisingly, she finds an equal, even expanded sense of "catastrophism" along the Pacific.

Wilentz feels few earthquakes and sees no riots, but she does get close to fires and floods. And she reliably -- if rather traditionally -- conjures up the SVW while viewing prehistoric bones at the La Brea Tar Pits, while shopping the faux streets of the Grove, or while contemplating her eerily pleasant yard in the figurative shadow of the Hollywood Hills. She recalls Charles Manson's relationship with the Beach Boys; she drives out to failed desert paradises like California City; she tours the sterile suburb of Lakewood with its resident poet, D.J. Waldie; she reads a good deal of Didion and perhaps too much Davis.

And apparently like every new everywoman in town, she does lunch with Warren Beatty, hangs in the salon of Arianna Huffington and mingles in the foyer of entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick's enormous mansion along Sunset Boulevard. Along with the ever-looming presence of the Arnold, each of these folks become important local symbols: the handsome liberal, the reinvented immigrant, the savvy marketeers.

The Resnicks make a fascinating study. They own vast tracts of agricultural land in the Central Valley -- along with fad-driven businesses like Fiji Water, Pom Wonderful juice and the Franklin Mint. Like other potent Angelenos, says Wilentz, they act as absentee landlords for American taste -- creating low-brow kitsch as easily as designer waters. She explores what she calls their "Little Versailles" on the suspicion that it might be a safe house for the SVW and discovers (brace yourself) that L.A. fosters excess, even among billionaires.

Yes, the author makes occasional forays north: to the Esalen Institute at Big Sur (where she investigates the failures of the '60s) and all the way to Sacramento (where she fails to meet the Arnold). But despite her often-repeated promises, this book is not about California as a whole -- indeed, it mistakenly assumes that L.A. facades represent California facades, that our noir reflects a statewide noir. And while mocking us for our celebrity worship, it must be pointed out that she also dwells on celebrity: the few working people we meet tend to be valet parking attendants in Bel-Air.

Wherever she travels, Wilentz finds something, well, wrong: our too-easy wealth, our too-easy fame, our frank pursuits. The Resnicks understand marketing perhaps too well. Huffington's spiritual advisor, the ever-smiling John-Roger, proves perhaps too "quackish." We are chastened to learn that "[n]o one ever gives a party just to have fun...A party here always has a money aspect and an informational aspect -- as if they have to justify a party and prove that their heads contain something other than air." And we're relieved when she finds comfort among the self-mocking "Morons," a rump group of L.A. thinkers organized by writers Mickey Kaus and Ann Louise Bardach. Much of the fun in this book comes from learning who hangs in which salon: who's formal, who's casual, and who, like Rob Reiner, "pontificates."

Wilentz paints expert and convincing portraits. Her observations prove charming, incisive, even true. And yes, even locals will picture the SVW more clearly through her eyes. Nevertheless, in the same way her anti-Israel slant might have made you uncomfortable with her Mideast coverage or her pro-Aristide stance might have troubled you in Haiti, Wilentz does push local stereotypes a bit far. When we read: "Everyone at Huffington's is arrogant in his or her own private way, in his or her own private sphere, and that's part of the reason they all get along so well" we do get a little worried that Wilentz won't be invited back. OK, not that worried: she probably spelled everyone's names correctly.

Wilentz is at her best when she writes about Schwarzenegger and his outsized role in our collective psyche. During the recall election of 2003, the Terminator offered, she says, a post-9/11 comfort figure, the superhero we all craved. She traces Schwarzenegger's global iconography, his crudity and the puncturing of his hyper-inflated ego in the special election of 2005. "More than anything," she says, "he reminds me of Hercules, who killed snakes in his crib, and who had to be taught and taught again to have a conscience, to have second thoughts about the uses of his own power." As often happens, she overstates her case, but we enjoy the simile.

Is there really Something Very Wrong with L.A., and by extension, this unredeemed but still-golden state? Are we really just successful barbarians? Is our power so unworthy? Are our virtues really so few? Is our genius merely crass? "Gee," the longtime Angeleno wants to ask, "can't we at least take pride in the way we surfed the big curl coming off that last, really gnarly century? You know, how we rode it so high and wild?"

In the end, Wilentz does not provide answers to such questions, and remains content simply to register her notes in the SVW archives.

The book concludes with her drive into the first stages of a large storm. The coming rain may prove catastrophic -- but it may not -- and she leaves the consequences of her journey, like those of L.A. itself, for future researchers to ponder.

For this she may be forgiven. We Angelenos have not yet determined the moral of our own tale, and surely we should appreciate it when our foibles are pointed out so skillfully. Really we should. Unfortunately, as usually happens when the SVW is brought to our attention, we smile with a vague embarrassment, we acknowledge each well-aimed blow and then we return to our gaudy search for paradise.--Marc Porter Zasada

not worth the effort.......2007-01-10

Not exactly well written with no definite thread of thought.
Jumbled.

I Feel Them, Too.......2006-09-04

It's a treat to snuggle up for 300-plus pages with Amy Wilentz's voice: reportorial and confiding, contentious and confessional, a hint of Didion and a pinch of Ephron, simultaneously neurotic and level-headed, paranoid and wise. What a balancing act - and the writing gains in richness, momentum and authority in chapter after chapter. After I'd finished, I recalled that when my wife and I moved to Los Angeles in '85 (Manhattan refugees like Wilentz), we coined an acronym for anything grotesque, ostentatious or just plain silly that had a distinctly SoCal vibe: "OILA". Which stood for Only In Los Angeles. Nearly every day, we'd turn to each other and say it. Several years ago we realized that, somewhere along the line, we'd stopped saying it. Because we'd stopped noticing; we were natives now. Well, after reading IFEMOTTH, I feel re-sensitized. Reborn, almost. Okay, not reborn - but amused, enlightened, informed ... and terrified to realize the extent to which we East-to-West Coast transplants have become what we beheld. Thank you Ms. Wilentz for that insight, and so many more.

A smart, funny, and astute look at L.A. today.......2006-08-19

Amy Wilentz is a Jersey girl who moved from Manhattan to LA after 9-11 -- and discovered, not a sunny laid-back paradise, but a whole new set of apocalyptic Mike Davis-like threats: forest fires, floods and landslides, and of course the earthquakes of the title. The seismic shifts include the rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which she covers brilliantly. The Governator, she observes, is never worried or troubled or embarrassed. That makes him the opposite of our author, who was praised by John Leonard in Harper's for her "luminous anxieties." My favorite part of the book is the prologue, which ends with the author in a tiny desert town that has a scale model of the Twin Towers, five feet tall. "At this size," she writes, "we could have cupped our hands and broken their fall."

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They Led The Way

They Led the Way
Johanna Johnston , and Deanne Hollinger
Manufacturer: Puffin
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ASIN: 0142400572

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The battle for equal rights began hundreds of years ago and there were many strong, influential women who fought hard for their freedom and for the freedom of others. Here are the stories of fourteen women who stood up for what they believed in. From Emma Willard, who started the first college for women, and Abigail Adams, who believed that women should have the same rights as men, to Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote a book that helped to abolish slavery, these are the inspiring stories of women who changed a nation.

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They Led The Way.......2002-04-14

This book is sooo good because you learn about how wemon made a difference in the world.

I will tell you two and you have to read the other twelve.It talks about the first lady who opend an all girl school and another who was the first to vote.
I COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN.

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Witty and charming!

Hey girlfriend, let's talk!

I am a guy

I'm Not Alone and I Will Survive!!!

Someone Understands!!!

Honey, They Shrunk My Hormones
Caron Chandler Loveless
Manufacturer: Howard Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1582292892

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Author Caron Loveless uses humor to inspire and encourage women as they face midlife.

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Witty and charming!.......2005-01-07

I found this book to be very charming. The author shines when describing the physical angst of midlife. Her humor is gentle and a bit sappy, but very heartfelt. The essay style was a bit inconsistent at times, but still, an easy read. I was disappointed at the overall Christian tone of this book, which I did not expect nor want, and felt it was kind of preachy.

A better, more hilariously humorous read is Julie Donner Andersen's "Parentally Insane: Insights From The Edge..of Midlife!", which covers the gamut of midlife pains and joys of raising children (and babies!) in midlife, physical changes, and midlife marriage.

Hey girlfriend, let's talk!.......2004-03-29

It's all about knowing you're not the only one! Thanks for this chatty, funny book about the change -- it's all attitude, all the time. Doesn't tell how to replace the hormones, just how to deal with not having them -- but there are other "replacement" books. Caron is a blessing, no matter what your religion.

I am a guy.......2003-11-07

It's great to finaly understand my wife! I am a guy, I don't read much, but I enjoyed the witty humor of Caron Loveless. This book will realy help guys who have wives going through this. Come on be a MAN!

I'm Not Alone and I Will Survive!!!.......2003-05-15

I actually host a book club, so I read alot! This was a great, quick read, but one I will refer to quite often. Caron Loveless is an excellent writer. I got the feeling she is close to God and really sought His counsel about this phase of life. I laughed out loud and cried a lot too. I especially liked her journal entry to herself at age 40ty. Wow! I wish my head was on that straight. It was beautiful! It amazed me how she was able to make you feel the good and the unpleasant throughout the book. You really felt like you were sitting there in one of the chat groups. I am telling all my friends about this book and insisting that they buy it. It's so down to earth with all that you might go through, yet very educational. Caron, you did a great job and I can't wait to read more of your books!

Someone Understands!!!.......2003-04-30

I have to admit that I am not the worlds greatest reader, however, the ease of gliding from cover to cover with Loveless' openness was a breeze! I was either laughing or crying throughout the book! As I started to read, I noticed I was relating so well to the author, that it felt like we were two girlfriends sitting down for a cup of afternoon tea. I also shared each chapter of the book with whomever was around, whether that be friends, family or complete strangers overseas. I have purchased several copies of the book for friends and currently am looking for my copy which I have probably given away to someone. The book has helped me in this critical time of my life from a mental, emotional and spiritual point of view. Thank you Caron for your sincerity in tackling this difficult topic! Sure do look forward to our next "tea" time together!

Diana, Princess of Wales (They Died Too Young)

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Once upon a time

Diana, Princess of Wales (They Died Too Young)
Vicki Cox
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0791058549

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Once upon a time.......2001-06-21

If you like fairy tales you'll love this true life one, Diana, Princess of Wales, in the series They Died Too Young, by Vicki Cox. Lady Diana Spencer met her prince charming, married him, and found that real life fairy tales don't always have a lived happily ever after ending. Cox's book reveals the rest of the story.

Girl in a Funk: Quick Stress Busters (and Why They Work)

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Girl in a Funk: Quick Stress Busters (and Why They Work)
Tanya Napier , and Jen Kollmer
Manufacturer: Orange Avenue Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0977266095

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Recognizing that teenagers are just as susceptible to stress as adults, this guide offers quick and easy ways to reduce tension, showing teenagers how to become productive rather than overwhelmed. Simple exercises such as deep breathing, self-acupressure, and eating vegetables can keep stress levels in check and energy levels high.

Good Daughters: Loving Our Mothers As They Age

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Quite Disappointing.
I Thougfht I Was the only One
a very helpful book
Every daughter should read this book!!
Poignant new treatment of mothers and daughters

Good Daughters: Loving Our Mothers As They Age
Patricia Beard
Manufacturer: Time Warner International
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Binding: Hardcover

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Mother and daughter: for both members, it's a long and complicated relationship. With today's increased longevity has come the growth of the "sandwich generation": baby boomers who are caring for both their aging parents and their own young children. What does this mean for the mother-daughter relationship? In Good Daughters: Loving Our Mothers As They Age, journalist Patricia Beard explores the emotional impact of aging and asks the essential questions, "How can we make peace with our mothers?" and "Why is it so hard?"

Based on dozens of interviews, Beard attempts to understand what works--and does not work--in women's relationships with their aging mothers. Good Daughters is structured into three sections: "Reality Check," a discussion of the changing mother-daughter relationship as women age as well as changes in the culture; "Profiles," an in-depth description of mother-daughter pairs; and "Loss," an exploration of the grieving process--for both mother and daughter--as death becomes imminent. Good Daughters is sensitively and thoughtfully written and brings a great deal of insight to this difficult topic. Readers struggling with the issue of what it means to be a daughter of an aging mother might want to augment this fine book with Alix Kates Shulman's brilliant memoir, A Good Enough Daughter. --Ericka Lutz

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Adult daughters, even with the best intentions, can find the last years of their mothers lives heartbreaking, frustrating, and filled with anxiety and guilt. Yet in this compassionate, lyrical book, journalist Patricia Beard shows that the end of life is a crucial stage in the mother-daughter relationship and that it can be satisfying and fulfilling. Good Daughters explores what it means to be a good daughter to an aging mother, why it is so hard, and how daughters can neutralize, or at least recognize, the old feelings that interfere with making clear-headed, warm-hearted decisions.

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Quite Disappointing........2007-05-10

I read the other reviews on line about this book, but found it did not live up to its high marks. I had a very difficult relationship with my Mom, who just recently passed away. While I thought the book was good at showing the different kinds of Mother-Daughter bonds, I found its treatment of the hard relationships to be lacking in sympathy for the daughters of difficult mothers. In particular, she appears to judge quite harshly one woman whose mother who was dying and was on a breathing machine. She essentially said that if the daughter had been closer to her mother, the doctors who refused to remove the breathing tube (which was causing the mother discomfort) might have acted differently. I am appalled both by the lack of empathy for the daughter and the complete lack of understanding of the modern medical establishment that this comment showed. I was looking for something to help me move on, heal, come to a better place about my life with my Mom. This book did not help.

I Thougfht I Was the only One.......2000-01-07

As a novice in the field of "Oh my God, mom is coming to live with me", I was so heartened to find this book, which BTW I have not even finished yet, and know that the petty annoyances that plague me are not a reason to consume me with guilt. I am not alone. How reassuring it was for me to know that other women are still feeling the tug of their mom's advice, criticism, competition yada yada yada. I know I love my mom but was concerned about my inability to relate to where she is coming from at this point in her life,being 86 years old, as well as how I wanted our relationship to be at my own age of 50. Now I better understand and it has made me a more compassionate daughter. I have found myself sobbing at times reading this book as well as laughing at myself AND my mom. I am now not so afraid to proceed to the end.

a very helpful book.......1999-05-21

A must read for every caring woman. Aging is a difficult topic, which Pat Beard manages to make palatable, helpful and interesting. By turns anecdotal, by turns analytical, she shows us the varieties of mother - daughter relationships. It's a wise and helpful book..

Every daughter should read this book!!.......1999-05-11

This book helps you to understand the aging process and how to behave around your aging mother so that the both of you are comfortable with your relationship. It addresses the questions of role reversals, death, and how both your lives can be more comfortable. This book humanizes an uncomfortable subject in easy to understand terms. It will make your and your mothers life a better place to live. If you have a mother this is a must read!!

Poignant new treatment of mothers and daughters.......1999-05-05

GOOD DAUGHTERS treats a crucial subject -- how to deal with aging mothers -- at a crucial time when the population of older mothers and mid-life daughters is expanding. This book contains valuable data and poignant profiles which reach across women's experience. The author writes beautifully and insightfully. I have already recommended this book to friends and teachers of women's studies. There is something here for every woman and every student of contemporary American life.

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Health Needs of Women As They Age
Sharon Golub
Manufacturer: Haworth Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0866564136

Outstanding Women Athletes: Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America

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Outstanding Women Athletes: Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America
Janet Woolum
Manufacturer: Oryx Pr
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ASIN: 0897747135

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DescriptionA unique combination of history, biography, bibliography, and statistics, the widely acclaimed first edition of Outstanding Women Athletes has now been updated to reflect the many significant changes that have taken place in women's sports in America in recent years. Now added are the biographies of 26 sports figures who have recently emerged as role models in traditional women's sports such as tennis and figure skating as well as in sports that historically excluded women such as mountain climbing, bullfighting, and boxing. Also new is a chapter profiling 10 women's championship teams, including each organization's history, brief biographies of 200 selected team members, and major team achievements.

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