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A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
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A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer Women's soccer is a game that has so often been relegated to the margins in a world fixated on gender differences above passion and talent. It is a game that could attract 50,000 fans to a stadium in the 1920s, was later banned by England's Football Association grounds for being "unsuitable for females," and has emerged as a global force in the modern era with the US Women's National Team leading the charge. A Woman's Game traces this arc of changing attitudes, increasing professionalism, and international growth. Veteran journalist Suzanne Wrack has crafted a thoroughly reported history which pushes back at centuries of boundaries while celebrating the many wonders that women's soccer has to offer. With the enormous success of the World Cup, 82 million US viewers for the USWNT against Netherlands in the 2019 World Cup Final, enlightened and outspoken players like Megan Rapinoe helping raise the profile of the game across the world, and a fully professional top-tier league going from strength to strength in both the US and the UK, the time cannot be better for this in-depth look at the beautiful game.
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"a comprehensive and detailed historical survey of women's football at a crucial point in its growth, which asks probing questions about what the game should do next."
"pulls together stories across a period of more than 140 years into a compelling narrative ..."
"[Wrack] includes several pearls of press reports from the earliest days, including the Standard's editorial, that give a flavour of the derision and hostility that greeted the pioneers of women's football ..."
"Suzanne Wrack is The Guardian's women's football correspondent and her focus is the misogyny that runs, an unbreakable thread, through the history and development of the women's game ..."
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