Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
Published on 17. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-5387-4778-0 (ISBN)
Description
"With a new foreword by former Olympic gymnast Jamie Dantzscher"--Back cover.
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Edition
Reissue ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5387-4778-0 (9781538747780)
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Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books. Her groundbreaking book Little Girls in Pretty Boxes was named one of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated and one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by the Guardian. Throughout her career, Ryan has been awarded thirteen Associated Press Sports Editors awards, the National Headliner Award, the Women's Sports Foundation's Journalism Award and the Fabulous Feminist Award from the San Francisco chapter of NOW. She is a founding trustee of Coaching Corps in Oakland, CA, and the Association of Women in Sports Media. Since 2008, she has been a media consultant with the San Francisco Giants.