Female athletes have been fighting for legitimacy since Ancient Greece, when girls ran in races wearing knee-length tunics that exposed their right breasts. When women exchanged their corsets for bloomers and took up cycling en masse in the late 1800s, the wheels of progress were set in motion. Today, women are active at every level of competition in dozens of sports. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports traces opposition to women in sports throughout the ages and catalogues women's trials and triumphs, sport by sport.

“The result is, as promised, a fun-filled look at the history of sportswomen through the ages, filled with fascinating facts and trivia, as well as amazing and inspirational stories about the stars we know and the ones we should know.”
— Lawrence M. Bernabo, Amazon.com, 2003

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