Jean Williams

These are emotionally intense poems about parent and child relationships.

This book contains a selection of Mandalas with rainbow colors, with most containing hearts. I hope to share in it m love of shape, color, and the world at large.

"Feather Presents" are those gifts that life gives us that can neither be held in the hand nor tied with bows. The posters contained within these covers hope to remind us that there are many of those feather presents to be found in life. Knowing that life's challenges can get the best of us if we let them puts that much more importance on finding an appreciating each feather present life has to offer us.

"Feather Presents" are those gifts that life gives us that can neither be held in the hand nor tied with bows. The poems and posters contained within these covers hope to remind us that there are many of those feather presents to be found in life. Knowing that life's challenges can get the best of us if we let them puts that much more importance on finding an appreciating each feather present life has to offer us.

Schnoo, The Changeable Animal is the story of a young girl, Lori, who has gone through her young life feeling as an outcast, without an understanding of how much she has to offer the world. Schnoo appears, a magical animal of many forms, and helps Lori to realize that her life can be much different and better than she ever could believe she deserved.

With an estimated 26 million female players globally (6 million based in Europe), the evolution of football has been dramatic. Growth in the women’s game has led to more widespread player migration as new forms of professionalism emerge. This work explores those patterns of movement into, and out of, Europe using new archival evidence and player interviews.

FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared 'The Future is Feminine' in a 1995 press release. Since then, football has been claimed as the fastest growing participation sport for women globally. An estimated twenty million women play the game around the world, and that figure is on the rise. However, the history of women's participation goes back to at least 1895 and in our enthusiasm for the present, the memory of that longer history can be overlooked or forgotten. A Beautiful Game examines contemporary women's football internationally, with case studies from England, the United States, China and Australia. In each case study, Jean Williams considers the evolution of the women's game against a backdrop of issues, such as media representation, access to facilities, lack of resources, coaching, sponsorship, talent identification, training and professionalisation. The author examines contentious questions, such as why women are absent from the highest levels of professional football, combining source material from archives, oral history and artefacts. A Beautiful Game analyses the status and image of the women's game from the late nineteenth century to the shifting social values of the present.

FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared 'The Future is Feminine' in a 1995 press release. Since then, football has been claimed as the fastest growing participation sport for women globally. An estimated twenty million women play the game around the world, and that figure is on the rise. However, the history of women's participation goes back to at least 1895 and in our enthusiasm for the present, the memory of that longer history can be overlooked or forgotten. A Beautiful Game examines contemporary women's football internationally, with case studies from England, the United States, China and Australia. In each case study, Jean Williams considers the evolution of the women's game against a backdrop of issues, such as media representation, access to facilities, lack of resources, coaching, sponsorship, talent identification, training and professionalisation. The author examines contentious questions, such as why women are absent from the highest levels of professional football, combining source material from archives, oral history and artefacts. A Beautiful Game analyses the status and image of the women's game from the late nineteenth century to the shifting social values of the present.