Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / / Jennifer Hargreaves
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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 ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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.: | 9910814006703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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