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



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Autore: Hargreaves Jennifer <1937-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heroines of sport : the politics of difference and identity / / Jennifer Hargreaves Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina: 796/.082
Soggetto topico: Sports for women - Social aspects
Sports for women
Feminist theory
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
Titolo autorizzato: Heroines of sport  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-58530-6
1-134-58531-4
0-585-45149-4
0-203-46606-3
1-280-33806-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910170998703321
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