A History Of Basketball For Girls And Women
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Author | : Joanne Lannin |
Publisher | : LernerSports |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Basketball for girls |
ISBN | : 9780822598633 |
Traces the development of women's basketball, from its beginnings at Smith College to today's Women's National Basketball Association.
Author | : Joanne Lannin |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2000-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780606271769 |
Traces the development of women's basketball, from its beginnings at Smith College to today's Women's National Basketball Association.
Author | : Pamela Grundy |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1469626012 |
Reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play, Shattering the Glass is a sweeping chronicle of women's basketball in the United States. Offering vivid portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars, Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford provide a broad perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its close relationship to concepts of womanhood, race, and sexuality, and to efforts to expand women's rights. Extensively illustrated and drawing on original interviews with players, coaches, administrators, and broadcasters, Shattering the Glass presents a moving, gritty view of the game on and off the court. It is both an insightful history and an empowering story of the generations of women who have shaped women's basketball.
Author | : Joanne Lannin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780613982504 |
Traces the development of women's basketball, from its beginnings at Smith College to today's Women's National Basketball Association.
Author | : Robert W. Ikard |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1557288895 |
The previously untold story of women’s basketball’s beginnings "Ikard (a basketball aficionado and amateur historian) offers a meticulous history of women’s basketball in the US--from the first game played at Smith College in 1892 to the 1970s--but he focuses on the AAU in the first half of the 20th century. . . . This period of women’s basketball is rarely discussed, so Ikard’s book will be valuable to sports historians. . . . Highly recommended.”-Choice
Author | : Janice A. Beran |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 160938007X |
“From Six-on-Six to Full Court Press is a complete history of Iowa women’s high school, college, and recreational basketball. Beran’s exhaustive research . . . covers legendary players and coaches, changes in rules, stats on Iowa girls’ high school records, alterations in playing styles and uniforms, along with the heart-stopping excitement of the state tournament.”—Hoop Source
Author | : Tom Robinson |
Publisher | : Norwood House Press |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 159953388X |
She dribbles, she drives the lane for the lay-up! Women's basketball is emerging as one of the world's most exciting sports. From colleges in the United States to the Olympics to professional leagues around the world, thousands of people come to cheer on their favorite team. But you don't need thousands of fans to enjoy basketball. All you need is a ball and a basket. The history, the rules, and the heroines: these nonfiction accounts of women's sports relate the interesting insights of each sport, including the rules, game play, and standout athletes. Girls looking for role models as well as the "hows and whys" of their favorite game will find the answers in these fresh, accessible titles. Part history, part biography, and part instruction, Girls Play to Win allows readers to access "everything they want to know" about the game. More than an introduction, this series takes what is likely an existing interest and allows the reader to delve deeper. Content consultants are real-world experts that include Olympic athletes and coaches. Library Media Connection Editor's Choice
Author | : Lissa Smith |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780871137616 |
A collection of thirteen narratives that profile the top female athletes in different sports, including Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Billie Jean King, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sheryl Swoopes.
Author | : Ralph Melnick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Basketball for women |
ISBN | : |
In the winter of 1892 the new instructor of physical training at Smith College, a diminutive young woman with a heavy accent, introduced her students to an adaptation of James Naismith's new game of Basket Ball. An immediate if unexpected success, the game spread to other women's schools across the country, and soon its founder, Senda Berenson (1868-1954), was called upon to codify its distinctive set of gender-specific rules. Emphasizing team passing and position over individual play, the version she instituted defined women's basketball for seventy years and eventually earned her the honor of being the first female elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Yet as Ralph Melnick points out, Berenson's pioneering role in the history of women's athletics was more a matter of accident than destiny. A Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, prone to ill health throughout her childhood, she enrolled in the Boston Normal School for Gymnastics in the fall of 1890 with the hope of strengthening herself so that she could pursue a career as a pianist, dancer, or painter, Instead she soon became both a practitioner and a proponent of a new approach to women's physical education, one aimed at providing a "natural outlet of the play instinct," developing "endurance and physical courage" as well as "quickness of thought and action," and promoting through teamwork the "power of organization" women needed to achieve full social equality. Extending her work into the factories and blighted urban tenements of America, Berenson later won the recognition of Jane Addams, Margaret Sanger, and other progressive reformers. Believing that "Americans have forgotten how to play," she wanted to teach others to live"joyfully--beautifully." For Berenson, the physical culture of exercise and games, played not for competition but for personal and social development as well as sheer enjoyment, was but another form of art. This convergence of athletics and aesthetics was hardly surprising, Melnick explains, because the single most important influence on Senda Berenson's life was her brother, the renowned art critic and connoisseur Bernard Berenson. The two siblings wrote frequently to each other over the course of their lives, and the author draws heavily on their correspondence throughout the book to create an intimate and insightful portrait of a remarkable American woman.
Author | : Amy B. Rogers |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 149942096X |
How can a girl go from playing basketball in gym class to becoming a WNBA superstar? The journey starts by learning as much as possible about the sport of basketball. Through manageable text, a detailed graphic organizer, and fun fact boxes, readers explore basketball basics. They also discover stories of some of the most famous women to ever play the game. Full-color photographs show girls and women hard at work and having fun on the basketball court. With each turn of the page, readers will feel inspired to pick up a basketball and put all they’ve learned into action.