Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / Jennifer Hargreaves.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: x, 331 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415070287
- 9780415070287
- 0415070279
- 9780415070270
- 796.0194
- GV709.18.G7 H37 1994
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 796.0194 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A283662B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-320) and index.
List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Theories of sports: the neglect of gender -- 2. Sports feminism: the importance of gender -- 3. Nature and culture: introducing Victorian and Edwardian sports for women -- 4. The legitimation of female exercise: the case of physical education -- 5. Recreative and competitive sports: expansion and containment -- 6. The inter-war years: limitations and possibilities -- 7. Femininity or 'musculinity'?: changing images of female sports -- 8. Gender relations of power: institutionalized discrimination -- 9. Olympic women: a struggle for recognition -- 10. Sports for all women: problems and progress -- 11. Into the twenty-first century: diversity and empowerment -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
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