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

• Autore: Hargreaves Jennifer <1937->
• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II