Christine Brennan Books

To understand the present strength of female athletes, one must first trace the long and uneven path that led them here. In the early decades of organized sport, women were largely excluded on grounds that seemed moral, medical, or even aesthetic. Society argued that aggression, physical exertion, a...

From On Her Game: Inside the Lives and Minds of Today's Female Athletes

In reporting on elite athletes, my goal was intimacy, not spectacle. I wanted to peel back the public veneer and touch the private reality of competition. Nancy Kerrigan, for instance, was often defined by a single incident – the 1994 attack that turned her name into tabloid shorthand. Yet when I sa...

From On Her Game: Inside the Lives and Minds of Today's Female Athletes