Green Gone Wrong : How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution

Rogers, Heather

ISBN 10: 1416572228 / ISBN 13: 9781416572220

Published by Scribner, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Green Gone Wrong : How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416572228
• ISBN 13: 9781416572220
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.113 pounds

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Synopsis

The revolution began with the simple act of a mother kicking a ball to her daughter. An English soccer trainer noticed, and praised her form. "Too bad" she replied, "there's no soccer league for mothers" Who could know that so many lives would change as a result of that simple exchange? In the suburban enclave of Montclair, New Jersey, as in so many communities around America, there was nothing new in the sight of mothers driving their minivans to soccer practice. What was new was that these women were driving to their own practices instead of dropping off their kids and watching from the sidelines. For the generation that grew up before Title IX's mandate of equal athletic opportunity, the field of play was a male preserve; girls watched and cheered. The lessons that sports are supposed to teach - team spirit, overcoming adversity, playing to win without rancor or anger - were restricted to this young boys' network; how could women help win the Battle of Waterloo when they'd been kept off the playing fields of Eton? The women of Montclair were mostly of that pre-Title IX generation, and many of them had never played competitive sports in their lives. In Alive and Kicking, Harvey Araton follows these women through their turbulent first two seasons. He turns his keen sportswriter's eye onto the battles, both on the field and in the psyche, that these women wage as they try to play a sport without compromising their values. He also shows the divisions that wrack the league when a slightly younger generation gets involved in the games, a generation raised without ambivalence about beating an opponent, willing to take a dangerous chance for a winning goal, even if it means running over the woman in their way. But most of all he describes the women who gain in confidence and ambition, like one of the league's pioneers, who finds the strength to leave a tired marriage, buoyed by her accomplishments on the field - as we

About the Author

Heather Rogers is a journalist and author. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and The Nation. Her first book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, traces the history and politics of household garbage in the United States.