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We decided to share some special books
featuring MARTINA
with our readers in this space!
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Are we happy to see this book!
Game Face, What Does A Female Athlete Look Like
Is a new photography book
from Random House that spans generations.
It had a nice article from
the New York Times about it. Martina's in it too!
It really has great photos
with insiteful text. It has the everyday female sports participant
as well as elite athletes. Geoffrey Biddle is the editor and film
director Penny Marshall wrote the introduction.
Game Face
by Jane Gottesman
List Price $35.00
Hardcover - 224 pages 1st edition (June 26, 2001)
Random House; ISBN: 0375506020
See the Washington Post Camera Works Photo Gallery
of Game Face for a nice preview.
The exhibit of photography
"Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?" is located at the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Building, 900 Jefferson Drive, SW. It is open daily through January 2 (closed December 25 only), from 10 AM to 5:30 PM; admission is free. The nearest Metro station to the Arts & Industries Building is the Smithsonian Station, located on the Blue and Orange Lines.
To see if the show is coming to a city near you visit
http://www.gamefaceonline.org/
We like this book. It's on modern economic trends.
We disagree with the analogy about Martina's purse. If the authors
knew more of the origins of the WTA they'd know the idea
of matching men's and women's prize money was why the
women left the 10% prize money tour and struck out on their own!
Had the fearsome threesome not formed the WTA women tennis pros would
still be scratching for scraps tossed to them by male event producers.
The wealth shared with women pro tennis players
due to the
bold action of Martina & company can be calculated in the millions.
That's hardly "take all". Most other parts of the book we heartily agree with.
You don't need to be a Harvad alumn to read this lucid, thought provoking book.
The Winner-Take-All Society : Why "the Few at the Top Get
So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook
List Price: $13.95
Paperback Reprint edition (September 1996)
Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140259953
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This was our first women's sports book that had the big picture!
A MUST READ for Martina fans.
It explains behaviors
of some members of the male sex
we
couldn't fathom.
Now we completely understand!
The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football : Sexism and the American Culture of Sports
by Mariah Burton Nelson
- updated for 2005!
List Price: $12.00
Paperback (August 1995)
Avon Books (Pap Trd); ISBN: 0380725274
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This is our TEXT BOOK favorite.
Great reading for
anyone who wonders why it's so important that
women atheletes be portrayed by
men as pin-ups. We wish the USA soccer team had
read this book before they agreed to
pose in those cheesecake photos!
You can order it by CLICKING this Photo!
Playing Nice
Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports
Mary Jo Festle
Mary Jo Festle reveals the true story of public attitudes and private ambitions surrounding women's athletics in the post-World War II era, confronting the politics of equality, difference, identity, and self-determination that have shaped women's participation in sports.
This book is hard to put down.
Those things you see at the sports bar are not
your imagination!
All of your worst suspicions are
confirmed in this thoughtful
book. You wonder why
it took someone so long to write this!
For more information, email mbb107@columbia.edu.
ISBN: 0231101627
Published 1996 by Columbia University Press
cloth, 400 pages, (May 15, 1996), $33.50
Strong Women, Deep Closets : Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport
by Pat Griffin
List Price: $19.95
Paperback - (February 1998)
Human Kinetics Pub; ISBN: 088011729X
Interviews with lesbian athletes, coaches, and sports
administrators.
Get the low down on the defenses of institutionalized sport against
lesbianism, including silence, heterosexual-image promotion, and downright
attacks on lesbians; the role of the Christian right in sport...etc. etc....
For readers of serious sports studies as well as lesbian studies.
We shamelessly paraphrase Whitney Scott's excellent review here. Kids, don't
do this in school! --- ed.
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this is FICTION ... but we like the AUTHOR.
The Total Zone
by Martina Navratilova, Liz Nickles (Contributor)
Synopsis
Helping aspiring young tennis stars reach
their full potential,
Jordan Myles, a former
champ-turned-sports therapist, must penetrate
the dark side of the international tennis world
when her newest charge
disappears. Reprint.
Price: $8.95
Mass Market Paperback - (July 1995)
Avon Books (Pap Trd); ISBN: 0380725274
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These are set before MARTINA's time but we added
them to our bookshelf - - - -
Here's how they did things at the Olympics before jet travel and television.
A wonderful read. Includes Babe D.
This also has a good description of the enormous popularity
of swimming as a spectator sport in those days. It has a truthful account
of Jim Crow race laws and how they made it hard on atheletes who had to travel
to the Olympics. Highly recommended!
You can order it thru this search.
CLICK HERE for University Press Order
Their Day in the Sun:
Women of the 1932 Olympics.
Doris H. Pieroth,
The 1932 Olympic games took place in Los Angeles in the depths of the Great Depression;
that they were held at all falls barely short of miraculous.
The United States sent thirty-seven women to compete--seventeen swimmers, seventeen track and field athletes, and three fencers.
It was not easy, and far from acceptable, for a woman to be an athlete in 1932. As late as April 1931 the International Olympic Committee
seriously considered eliminating women's events. The young Americans did their part to capture the imagination of spectators and reporters.
Through the sports press they catapulted the Olympic Games and women's athletics into the nation's consciousness as never before.
Doris Pieroth creates vivid portraits of the women, including the great Babe Didrikson, the confident and outspoken track
and field star; Tidye Pickett, one of only two African American women who represented the United States despite encountering
racial discrimination; and Helene Madison, winner of three gold medals in swimming, who returned triumphantly to
Seattle's West Green Lake Beach--as a hotdog vendor (park department rules barred women from teaching swimming).
The team truly represented America--a democratic cross-section from New York to California, Washington to Florida,
Minnesota to Texas and points in between. Drawn from public pools, schools and playgrounds, municipal and industrial
recreation programs, and private clubs alike it reflected the country's entire socio-economic spectrum. Their attainments
and triumphs went a long way toward insuring that women's events would continue as an integral part of the
Olympic Games--a prospect by no means certain in 1932.
Pieroth's account is drawn from interviews with eleven of the women athletes, family members, other Olympians
of the era, and witnesses of the 1932 games. She also quotes extensively from contemporary journalists such as
Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler, and Damon Runyon, whose mixture of condescension, fulsome admiration for
the "glamour girl" swimmers, and genuine, if sometimes grudging, admiration for the accomplishments
of the athletes provides an intriguing view of the stereotypes these Olympic contestants were challenging.
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics is the story of those remarkable people--their dedication
and their delight in competition. In recounting their Olympic summer and their varied routes to Los Angeles,
it adds to the history of sport the identities and details of a specific athletic cohort and their experiences in striving
for excellence and acceptance.
Published by The University of Washington Press
cloth, 208 pp, 24 photos, 1996
ISBN: 0-295-97553-9 Cloth $30.00
ISBN: 0-295-97554-7 Paper $16.95
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A BIO for your collection.
A comprehensive, in-depth biography of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a woman who was a great
athlete at a time when it was extremely difficult for a woman to be her own person.
Cayleff caringly reveals Babe's life, including her involvement with young golfer Betty Dodd,
whose for-the-record discussion of their relationship is included. Photos.
You can order it thru this search.
CLICK HERE for U of I Press.
Babe : The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
(Women in American History)
by Susan E. Cayleff
BABE has been nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award---- BABE was the winner
of the GLAAD Outstanding Book Award---- LA WEEKLY called BABE one of "the top ten sports
books of 1995----
---- LAMBDA BOOK REPORT said, "Cayleff has worked to find what is legend and what is
life, in a life that took on mythic proportions."---- BOOKLIST said BABE is "A groundbreaking
portrait."---- To read excerpts from BABE: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
visit GOLFWEB at http://www.golfweb.com/library/books/babe/babe1.html
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the premier female athlete of her era, beginning with two gold medals in the 1932
Olympics and extending through a professional golf career that ended just before her death in 1956. Cayleff, professor
of women's studies at San Diego State, examines this unique life from three perspectives: Babe's life as she lived it;
the public persona Babe created in order to cope with the attitudes and mores of the times; and, finally, Babe's lesbianism.
Unable to acknowledge her sexuality, Babe was forced to manufacture a palatable lifestyle for public consumption;
hence, her marriage to professional wrestler George Zaharias.
...(Babe) is a groundbreaking portrait of an astute, gifted woman forced to cope with a society that
grudgingly approved of her athleticism but wasn't willing to deal with her sexuality.
Wes Lukowsky, Booklist.
University of Illinois Press, 1995. 368 pp.
Cloth cover (ISBN 0-252-01793-5) $29.95.
Paper cover (ISBN 0-252-06593-X) $14.95.
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