Not A Game For Girls
Title | Not A Game For Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Peel |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 93 |
Release | 2018-10-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 178682616X |
Not A Game For Girls explores the most successful of the women's football teams established to boost wartime morale, following the suspension of all Football League matches at the end of the 1914-15 season. The Dick, Kerr's Ladies team was founded in 1917, based in Preston, Lancashire, and included the player Lily Parr who was honoured with a statue at the National Football Museum in Manchester in 2019. The play aims to highlight the Dick, Kerr's Ladies story, capturing the spirit and camaraderie that led women to ignore and defy prevailing social attitudes, both on and off the pitch. It shows the prejudices they faced, as well as how their lives and families were affected by the return of men who had been traumatised by trench warfare. The play ends as the Football Association, threatened by the popularity of the games, banned women from playing on their pitches. Yet the play ends on a hopeful note - the women had proved they could play well, and playing in the team had broadened the players' horizons, leading them to professions and places they might not otherwise have known.
Games Girls Play
Title | Games Girls Play PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Cunningham |
Publisher | Studies in New Media |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781498554565 |
Games Girls Play examines the role that video games play in girls' lives, including how games structure girls' leisure time, how playing video games constitutes different performances of femininity, and what influences girls to play or not play video games. Through interviews, focus groups, and qualitative content analyses, this book analyzes girls' involvement with video games. It also examines different contexts in which discourses of girls and video games occur, including girl-oriented video games, activist efforts to change the video game industry, and informal education programs that teach girls video game design.
Game Girls
Title | Game Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Waite |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2009-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1849398267 |
Alix, Courtney and Fern aren't 'bad' girls. They're respectable sixth form students who've hit on a great way to pull in good money. They can buy designer gear, holiday abroad, and aren't even out of place at a millionaire's party. As long as they follow their own 'rules', and keep themselves safe, who cares how they earn the extra cash? No one's going to get hurt. Or are they . . ? A gripping story of teenage girls who use sex to make money - and then find that money is not after all going to resolve all ills.
A Game for Rough Girls?
Title | A Game for Rough Girls? PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Williams |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013-03-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135136211 |
Can we truly call football England's 'national' game? How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football? Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998 FIFA declared that "the future is feminine" and that football was the fastest growing sport for women globally. The result of several years of original research, the book traces the continuities in women's participation since the beginnings of the game, and highlights the significant moments that have influenced current practice. The text provides: *insight into the communities and individual experiences of players, fans, investors, administrators and coaches *examination of the attitudes and role of national and international associations *analysis of the development of the professional game *comparisons with women's football in mainland Europe, the USA and Africa. A Game for Rough Girls is the first text to properly theorize the development of the game. Examining recreational and elite levels, the author provides a thorough critique, placing women's experience in the context of broader cultural and sports studies debates on social change, gender, power and global economics.
California Blue Bulletin
Title | California Blue Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | California. State Board of Education |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1920 |
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Gamer Girls
Title | Gamer Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Kenney |
Publisher | Running Press Kids |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2022-07-19 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0762474556 |
Discover the women behind the video games we love—the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built—and how they changed the industry forever. Women have always made video games, from the 1960s and the first-of-its-kind, projector-based Sumerian Game to the blockbuster Uncharted games that defined the early 2000s. Women have been behind the writing, design, scores, and engines that power one of the most influential industries out there. In Gamer Girls, now you can explore the stories of 25 of those women. Bursting with bold artwork, easy-to-read profiles, and real-life stories of the women working on games like Centipede, Final Fantasy, Halo, and more, this dynamic illustrated book shows what a huge role women have played—and will continue to play—in the creation of video games. With additional sidebars about other influential women in the industry, as well as a glossary and additional resources page, Gamer Girls offers a look into the work and lives of influential pixel queens such as: Roberta Williams (one of the creators of the adventure genre) Mabel Addis Mergardt (the first person to write a video game) Muriel Tramis (the French "knight" of video games) Keiko Erikawa (creator of the otome genre) Yoko Shimomura (composer for Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts) Rebecca Heineman (first national video game tournament champion) Danielle Bunten Berry (creator of M.U.L.E. and early advocate for multiplayer games) and more! Whether you’re a gamer girl who plays video games, a gamer girl who makes video games, or a parent raising a gamer girl, this entertaining, inspiring book will have you itching to pick up a controller or create your own video games!
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Title | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Blume |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1481409948 |
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.