Shattering The Glass: The Remarkable History Of Women's Basketball

About this book

Over the past decade womens basketball has exploded onto the national sports scene. WNBA and NCAA television ratings have skyrocketed; movies magazines and clothing lines showcase female players. But as the authors of Shattering the Glass show womens basketball has a much longer history reaching back over a century of struggle liberation and gutsy play. Shattering the Glass offers a sweeping chronicle of womens basketball in the United States from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its dominant position in sports today. Offering vivid portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars it also provides a broader perspective on the history of the sport exploring its relationship to changing ideas of womanhood efforts to expand womens economic and political rights and definitions of sexual equality. Based on original interviews with players coaches administrators broadcasters and extensively illustrated Shattering the Glass provides a moving gritty view of the game on and off the court and an empowering story of the generations of women who have shaped womens basketball.