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Freeing the female body : inspirational icons / editors, J.A. Mangan and Fan Hong.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global societyPublisher: London : Frank Cass, 2001Description: x, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0714681296
  • 9780714681290
  • 0714650889
  • 9780714650883
Uniform titles:
  • International journal of the history of sport.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.420922
LOC classification:
  • GV439. F67 2001
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Prologue - Freeing Bodies: Heroines in History -- 1. All the Freedom of the Boy': Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth-Century Architect of Women's Rights -- 2. A Martyr for Modernity: Qiu Jin, Feminist, Warrior and Revolutionary -- 3. A Militant Madonna: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Feminism and Physical Culture -- 4. A Lifetime of Campaigning: Ettic Rout, Emancipationist beyond the Pale -- 5. Breaking Bounds: Alice Profe, Radical and Emancipationist -- 6. At the Heart of a New Profession: Margaret Stansfeld, a Radical English Educationalist -- 7. Alexandrine Gibb: In 'No Man's Land of Sport' -- 8. A Glittering Icon of Fascist Femininity: Trebisonda 'Ondina' Valla -- 9. Ignoring Taboos: Maria Lenk, Latin American Inspirationalist -- 10. In Pursuit of Empowerment: Sensei Nellie Kleinsmidt, Race and Gender Challenges in South Africa -- Epilogue - Prospects for the New Millennium: Women, Emancipation and the Body -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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"First appeared as a special issue of the International journal of the history of sport (ISSN 0952-3367), vol. 18, no. 1, March 2001, published by Frank Cass"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Prologue - Freeing Bodies: Heroines in History -- 1. All the Freedom of the Boy': Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth-Century Architect of Women's Rights -- 2. A Martyr for Modernity: Qiu Jin, Feminist, Warrior and Revolutionary -- 3. A Militant Madonna: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Feminism and Physical Culture -- 4. A Lifetime of Campaigning: Ettic Rout, Emancipationist beyond the Pale -- 5. Breaking Bounds: Alice Profe, Radical and Emancipationist -- 6. At the Heart of a New Profession: Margaret Stansfeld, a Radical English Educationalist -- 7. Alexandrine Gibb: In 'No Man's Land of Sport' -- 8. A Glittering Icon of Fascist Femininity: Trebisonda 'Ondina' Valla -- 9. Ignoring Taboos: Maria Lenk, Latin American Inspirationalist -- 10. In Pursuit of Empowerment: Sensei Nellie Kleinsmidt, Race and Gender Challenges in South Africa -- Epilogue - Prospects for the New Millennium: Women, Emancipation and the Body -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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