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Autore: |
Hargreaves Jennifer <1937->
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Titolo: |
Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / / Jennifer Hargreaves
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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 |
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