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Mariah Burton Nelson is the author of The Stronger Women Get, The More Men
Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports (Harcourt Brace
1994, Avon Paperbacks, 1995), that was nominated for awards by the Center
for the Study of Sport in Society and the North American Society for Sport
Sociology. Her first book, Are We Winning Yet? How Women Are Changing Sports
and Sports Are Changing Women (Random House 1991) received the Amateur
Athletic Foundation's Book Award. She is currently working on The Courage to
Compete: Winning, Losing, and Intimacy in Women's Lives (William Morrow
1997), and writes the first and only nationally syndicated women's sports
column, for Knight-Ridder/Tribune, that is distributed to 320 newspapers.
Nelson majored in psychology at Stanford ('78), where she averaged 19 points
per game on the basketball team and was the captain and leading scorer and
rebounder her last three years. One rebound record is unbroken. She played
for pro teams in France (Clermont-Ferrand) and the United States (New Jersey
Gems). She later received a masters in public health from San Jose State
University.
A former weekly columnist for the Washington Post and editor of Women's
Sports and Fitness magazine, she has written for the New York Times, USA
TODAY, Ms. Magazine, Glamour, Shape, Fitness, Cosmopolitan, and many other
periodicals.
In her role as the nation's leading expert on gender and sports, Nelson
has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Phil Donahue Show,
Larry King Live, Dateline; CBS's Evening News; Crossfire, Geraldo Rivera;
The Maury Povitch Show, and hundreds of other television and radio shows.
She is featured in a documentary about homophobia in women's sports called
Out for a Change.
In 1988 she won the Women's Sports Foundation/Miller Lite Magazine
Journalism Award. She was a finalist for the same award in 1990, 1991, and
1994. In 1994 she won the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau's Nancy Rehm Memorial
Award "for honest reporting of girls and women in sports." In 1995 she was
presented with the National Organization for Women's award for excellence in
sports writing. In 1996 she will receive the National Association of Girls
and Women in Sport's Guiding Woman in Sport Award, and will be inducted into
the National Girls and Women in Sport Symposium Hall of Fame.
Nelson lectures frequently on college campuses and at conferences. She
currently competes in masters swimming events (specializing in the
1500-meter freestyle; her time is in the top five nationally for her age
group) and coaches her mother, Sarah Burton Nelson, who recently set two
Arizona state breaststroke records for women aged 70-74.
She can be reached at: Mariahbn@aol.com.
Other Publications:
When Women
Win Too Much
The Courage
to Lead from the Heart
Paid To Play A Game
My Mother, My Rival, MS magazine, reprinted in "A Kind of Grace"
From this article: "Competition is about passion for perfection, and
passion for other people who join in this impossible quest. What better way
to get to know someone than to test your abilities together, to be daring
and sweaty and exhausted together."
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