She Shoots, She Scores: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Sport

Janet Money, formerly the sports editor of the Woodstock Daily
Sentinel-Review, is a freelance writer and editor in London, Ontario.

Laura Robinson is a former national cycling team member and a freelance
journalist who has contributed articles to newspapers, magazines, and
cycling journals. The selected pieces in this volume range from athlete
profiles to opinion pieces about issues in women and sports, including
sexual abuse and harassment, equal access to facilities, racism, and
media.

Robinson’s expertise in rowing and cycling makes her profiles of
Silken Laumann and Clara Hughes particularly vivid. In later sections of
the book, she explores such questions as why a cosmetics company is
providing self-esteem kits of its products to schoolgirls and planting
the suggestion that self-esteem can be purchased. Native and other
minority women athletes are profiled, and the book includes several
appendices of resources available for women athletes, coaches, and
teachers.

Robinson is a first-rate journalist whose well-written treatments of
important issues deserve to be read by a general audience as well as by
students.