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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814006703321

Autore

Hargreaves Jennifer <1937->

Titolo

Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / / Jennifer Hargreaves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-91276-5

1-280-51769-7

0-203-22194-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

ACPE Ebook collection

Disciplina

796/.0194

Soggetti

Sports for women - Great Britain - History

Sports for women - Sociological aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.