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This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game by Jennifer Cooper

May 17, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

History has many layers. Dresses can have many layers.  But whereas history plays out, it is hard to play most sports or ride a bicycle in dresses. Especially the outfits that many women athletes would wear before some enterprising women decided to change things up. This Skirt Won’t Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game by Jennifer Cooper and illustrator Eva Byrne follows how tennis went from a long skirt to a 1920s fashion statement. How women hockey players would change […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Sports Tagged With: clothing, dresses & skirt, Eva Byrne, hockey, Jennifer Cooper, Social Themes, Swimming, tennis, women, women in sports

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:278 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Sports · Tags: clothing, dresses & skirt, Eva Byrne, hockey, Jennifer Cooper, Social Themes, Swimming, tennis, women, women in sports ·
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“Claim your power, and bring along your full humanity.”

Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach

June 13, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

One of the weird things about me is that I *enjoy* attending graduation ceremonies. I can understand why others don’t like attending them – they can be very long and require us to sit in uncomfortable locations but there’s something about watching people I love accomplish something and be recognized for it that makes my heart happy. Because I’m a human full of contradictions I hated attending my own graduations. All of them were pure torture. One of the quintessential parts of graduations is the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: Abby Wambach, Wolfpack, women in sports

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: Abby Wambach, Wolfpack, women in sports ·
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