Eat Sweat Play
How Sport Can Change Our Lives
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- 55,00 kr
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- 55,00 kr
Publisher Description
Part manifesto, part how-to, Eat Sweat Play is a hugely inspirational call to arms for women to take back sport for themselves.
Long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Sport's for everyone . . . isn't it?
Society has led us to believe that women and sport don’t mix. But why? What happens to the young girls who dare to climb trees and cartwheel across playgrounds?
In her exploration of major taboos, from sex to the gender pay gap, sports journalist Anna Kessel discovers how sport and exercise should play an integral role in every sphere of our modern lives.
Covering a fascinating range of women, from Sporty Spice to mums who box and breastfeed, Eat Sweat Play reveals how women are finally reclaiming sport, and by extension their own bodies, for themselves – and how you can too.
'Anna Kessel's book should inspire a whole generation of women. It ought to be on the school curriculum.' - Hadley Freeman
'I’d go as far to say that this book was a life changer for my health and fitness.' - Estée Lalonde
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This is a powerful read, whatever your age or gender. Sports journalist Anna Kessel dives unflinchingly into the, at times, deeply troubling taboos still prevalent across women’s involvement in sport. But it’s powerful because of its resolve and resourcefulness. Kessel and her impressive range of interviewees (including Melanie “Sporty Spice” Chisolm!) get angry, but then plot intelligent and tangible ways for how to develop healthier attitudes towards young girls, sport and exercise. There’s rarely been a better time for women at the highest level of sport—and this brilliant book plots out how future generations can confidently look to an even brighter future.
