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Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / Jennifer Hargreaves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hargreaves, Jennifer, 1937-
- Series:
- ACPE Ebook collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports for women--Great Britain--History.
- Sports for women.
- Sports for women--Sociological aspects.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An outstanding contribution to feminist analysis of sport from the nineteenth century to the present day the author presents sport as a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Theories of sports: the neglect of gender
- Sports feminism: the importance of gender
- Nature and culture: introducing Victorian and Edwardian sports for women
- The legitimation of female exercise: the case of physical education
- Recreative and competitive sports: expansion and containment
- The inter-war years: limitations and possibilities
- Femininity or 'musculinity'?: changing images of female sports
- Gender relations of power: institutionalized discrimination
- Olympic women: a struggle for recognition
- Sports for all women: problems and progress
- Into the twenty-first century: diversity and empowerment.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-91276-5
- 1-280-51769-7
- 0-203-22194-X
- 9780203221945
- OCLC:
- 275233103
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