Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverag

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Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K.

Women and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration focuses on women winning access to the playing field as well as the front office in sport. R

The subject is rife with social and cultural implications which Guttmann explores as he traces the development of women's sports from antiquity to the present,