TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hargreaves,Jennifer
TI  - Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sport
SN  - 9780203221945
AV  - GV709.18.G 
U1  - 796.082 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Sports for women -- Great Britain -- History
KW  - Sports for women -- Sociological aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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