Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports
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Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports
Routledge, 1994
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-320) and indexes
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: hbk ISBN 9780415070270
Description
Using archival books and artifacts, original records and documents, and media material, the author makes a contribution to the feminist study of sport from the 19th century to the present day. She examines theoretical ideas, historical material and topical issues and in doing so reveals the complex and paradoxical character of female sport. Attention is given to both gender and class relations, as well as other aspects of life and culture which are intrinsic to the development of female sport. This book places women at the centre of the discussion. It views sport as part of a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention.
Table of Contents
1. Theories of Sport - The Neglect of Gender 2. Sports Feminism - The Importance of Gender 3. Nature and Culture - Introducing Victorian and Edwardian Sport 4. The Legitimation of Female Exercise - The Case of Physical Education 5. Recreative and Competitive Sports - Expansion and Containment 6. The Interwar Years - Limitations and Possibilities 7. Femininity of Musculinity? - Images of Women's Sport 8. Relations of Power - Institutionalized Discrimination 9. Olympic Women - A Struggle for Recognition 10. Sport for All Women - Problems and Progress 11. Towards 2000 AD - Diversity and Empowerment.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415070287
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1994 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award
An outstanding contribution to feminist analysis of sport from the nineteenth century to the present day. Jennifer Hargreaves views sport as a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention. Placing women at the centre of discussion, no other book is as comprehensive.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Theories of sports
- Chapter 2 Sports feminism
- Chapter 3 Nature and culture
- Chapter 4 The legitimation of female exercise
- Chapter 5 Recreative and competitive sports
- Chapter 6 The inter-war years
- Chapter 7 Femininity or 'musculinity'?
- Chapter 8 Gender relations of power
- Chapter 9 Olympic women
- Chapter 10 Sports for all women
- Chapter 11 Into the twenty-first century
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