Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties

by Sue Macy

Book Overview

Award-winning author Sue Macy offers a fresh and timely account of women in sports in the 1920s, and how their determination, talent, and defiance in the face of criticism promoted women's rights, redefined femininity, and changed the course of history.

Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, poignant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426336764
• ISBN13: 9781426336768
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7