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Sports: Overviews

History of Women in Sports -- notable female athletes, women's sports organizations, and the place of women in athletics and sports.
Crossword Puzzle: Women in Sports
A crossword puzzle focusing on women in sports.
History of Women in Sports Timeline
A chronology of women in sports, with a couple of entries in the ancient world and in medieval times, but most in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sports Illustrated: Women
Sports Illustrated lists 100 women athletes, the people they consider "the century's greatest sportswomen."
Women and Sport: A Feminist Overview
From Victorian times to modern times, an analysis of women in sports.

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