Description: When Title IX was passed in 1972, only one out of twenty-seven school-age girls played sports. Now one in three does. That's a 900 percent increase, and a statistic that indicates the size of the potential audience for this powerful book of photographs of female athletes, the work of our country's best photographers, from the newest photojournalists to artists such as Annie Leibovitz and Ansel Adams. Aware of how women athletes tend to be ignored by the media, Jane Gottesman saw the need for a book that spotlighted not only our best female athletes but the everyday achievements of girls and women who play hard in every type of sport. With the question What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? as her driving force, she compiled this inspiring collection of color and black-and-white photographs, a text with first-person accounts by athletes, and a time line of women's athletic milestones.

To be published in June to coincide with a three-month exhibition at the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Building in Washington, D.C., that will tour for five more years, Game Face has been endorsed by the Girl Scouts, who've developed a Game Face patch, and the YWCA. A great gift, this unique, timely book takes one of art's most studied subjects -- the female body -- and celebrates it in a brand-new way.

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