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The 2010 theme is Writing Women Back into History

The focus of the CSUMB Library's Women's History Month Spotlight is the history of women in sports. On the home page is Dr. Sarah Gerhardt, first female tow-in surfer, and first woman to surf Maverick's. Dr. Gerhardt is also married, the mother of two children, and holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. The photo is courtesy of Elizabeth Pepin Silva.

Selected Library Books on the History of Women in Sports

The African American woman golfer : her legacy / M. Mikell Johnson
Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin
Crossing boundaries : an international anthology of women's experiences in sport / Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, editors
Encyclopedia of women and sport in America / edited by Carole A. Oglesby
Encyclopedia of women and sports / Victoria Sherrow
Female gladiators : gender, law, and contact sport in America / Sarah K. Fields
The game of life : college sports and educational values / James L. Shulman
Girl in the curl : a century of women in surfing / Andrea Gabbard
Maverick's : the story of big-wave surfing / by Matt Warshaw
A new season : using Title IX to reform college sports / Brian L. Porto
No girls in the clubhouse : the exclusion of women from baseball / Marilyn Cohen
Outstanding women athletes : who they are and how they influenced sports in America / Janet Woolum
The rise and fall of the sportswoman : women's health, fitness, and athletics, 1860-1940 / Gregory Kent Stanley
Shattering the glass : the remarkable history of women's basketball / Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford
Tilting the playing field : schools, sports, sex, and Title IX / Jessica Gavora
Title IX / Linda Jean Carpenter, R. Vivian Acosta
When the girls came out to play : the birth of American sportswear / Patricia Campbell Warner
Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman / Kathleen Krull
Women and sport : interdisciplinary perspectives / D. Margaret Costa, Sharon R. Guthrie, editors
Women and sports in the United States : a documentary reader / Jean O'Reilly and Susan K. Cahn, editors
Women in sport / edited by Barbara L. Drinkwater
The women's sports encyclopedia / Robert Markel, executive editor

Featured Online Women's History Month Resources

ACLU Women's History Month page information and links from the American Civil Liberties Union
Aletta Institute for Women's History home of the International Archives for the Women's Movement
Discovering American Women's History Online provides access to digital collections of primary sources
Facts about Women from the U.S. Census Bureau
National Women's History Project Resource Center offers introductory-level resources on multicultural women's history
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition available for the month of March
Women's History Month Collections wide variety of digitally available materials from the Library of Congress and partners

See Also
Gender Studies Research Guide