Sporting Females : Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sport.

By: Hargreaves, JenniferMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203221945Subject(s): Feminist theory | Sports for women -- Great Britain -- History | Sports for women -- Sociological aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sporting Females : Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's SportDDC classification: 796.082 LOC classification: GV709.18.GOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
Summary: 1994 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book AwardAn 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.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

1994 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book AwardAn 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.

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