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

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By Sue Macy ’76

Published Jan. 15, 2020

Breaking Through examines the evolution of women's rights in sports, introducing to young-adult readers the female athletes who from the first Golden Age of Women's Sports as well as the critics who sought to suppress them in order to preserve their concept of femininity.

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PAW's October 2026 cover, featuring a photo of a loaf of challah bread and the headline "The Braids That Bind."
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