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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-320) and indexes
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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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