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Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports / Jennifer Hargreaves.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: x, 331 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415070287
  • 9780415070287
  • 0415070279
  • 9780415070270
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.0194
LOC classification:
  • GV709.18.G7 H37 1994
Contents:
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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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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