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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170998703321

Autore

Hargreaves Jennifer <1937->

Titolo

Heroines of sport : the politics of difference and identity / / Jennifer Hargreaves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-58530-6

1-134-58531-4

0-585-45149-4

0-203-46606-3

1-280-33806-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

796/.082

Soggetti

Sports for women - Social aspects

Sports for women

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-257) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Heroines of Sport: The politics of difference and identity; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and acronyms; Acknowledgements; 1 Introducing heroines of sport: Making sense of difference and identity; 2 Race, politics and gender: Women's struggles for sport in South Africa; 3 The Muslim female heroic: Shorts or veils?; 4 Aboriginal sportswomen: Heroines of difference or objects of assimilation?; 5 Sporting lesbians: Heroic symbols of sexual liberation; 6 Impaired and disabled: Building on ability; 7 Struggling for a new world order: The Women's International Sport Movement; Notes

BibliographyName index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world South African women; Muslim women from the Middle East; Aboriginal women from Australia and Canada; and lesbian and disabled women from different countries worldwide. It also asks searching questions about colonialism and neo-colonialism in the



women's international sport movement.The particular groups of women featured in the book reflect the need to