Book Signing "Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball" May 17, 2009

Please join author Jennifer Ring on May 17 at noon for a book signing of “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball,” at Book Soup on 8818 West Sunset in West Hollywood. ”Stolen Bases” reflects a very personal struggle about Ring’s own daughter’s battle to play the game she loves and also looks at American softball, which was originally invented by men who wanted to keep playing baseball indoors during cold winter months but has become the consolation sport for most female players.

Throughout her analysis, Ring searches for ways to rescue baseball from its arrogance and exclusionary entitlement and to restore the great American sport’s more optimistic nickname: the people’s game.

Jennifer Ring is a professor of political science and former director of women’s studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her previous publications include The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt, as well as works in political theory and gender and identity politics.