Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports /
Hargreaves, Jennifer, 1937-
Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / Jennifer Hargreaves. - x, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-320) and index.
List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
0415070287 9780415070287 0415070279 9780415070270
93024575
Sports for women--History--Great Britain
Sports for women--Sociological aspects
Feminist theory.
GV709.18.G7 / H37 1994
796.0194
Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / Jennifer Hargreaves. - x, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-320) and index.
List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
0415070287 9780415070287 0415070279 9780415070270
93024575
Sports for women--History--Great Britain
Sports for women--Sociological aspects
Feminist theory.
GV709.18.G7 / H37 1994
796.0194