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

• Autore: Hargreaves Jennifer <1937->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 796/.0194
• Soggetto topico: Sports for women - Great Britain - History; Sports for women - Sociological aspects; Feminist theory
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sporting females
• ISBN: 1-134-91276-5; 1-280-51769-7; 0-203-22194-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779819103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II