Sport in Europe: Politics, Class, Gender

by Mangan; J.A.

• ISBN13: 9780714649467
• ISBN10: 0714649465
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, and offer fraternal and sororital bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. These essays consider the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examine its relationship with politics, gender and class.

Author Biography

Callum Brown is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Adrian Harvey teaches Victorian history and literature at the Workers' Education Association Wojciech Liponski is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Tara Magdalinski is a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Executive director of the Youth Studies Research Unit at Sunshine Coast University College, Queensland, Australia J.A. Mangan is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Strathclyde University and Director of its International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society Alethea Melling lectures in social history at the University of Central Lancashire, St Martin's University College, and Lancaster University Gertrud Pfister is Professor of Sport History and Sociology at the Free University, Berlin Teresa Ziolkowska is Professor of Physical Education, Physical Education Academy, Poznan

Table of Contents

Prologue	vii
J.A. Mangan
SPORT AND GENDER
Women and Football -- A Contradiction? The Beginnings of Women's Football in Four European Countries	1	(26)
Gertrud Pfister
Kari Fasting
Sheila Scraton
Benilde Vazquez
Cultural Differentiation, Shared Aspiration: The Entente Cordiale of International Ladies' Football, 1920--45	27	(27)
Alethea Melling
A Contribution to the History of Jewsish Sport and Education in Poland: The City of Poznan, 1904--39	54	(9)
Teresa Ziolkowska
SPORT AND CLASS
English Elementary Education Revisited and Revised: Drill and Athleticism in Tandem	63	(29)
J.A. Mangan
Colm Hickey
Football's Missing Link: The Real Story of the Evolution of Modern Football	92	(25)
Adrian Harvey
`Touched Pitch and Been Shockingly Defiled': Football, Class, Social Darwinism and Decadence in England, 1880--1914	117	(27)
R.W. Lewis
SPORT AND POLITICS
Organised Memories: The Construction of Sporting Traditions in the German Democratic Republic	144	(20)
Tara Magdalinski
Sport and the Scottish Office in the Twentieth Century: The Control of a Social Problem	164	(19)
Callum G. Brown
Sport and the Scottish Office in the Twentieth Century: The Promotion of a Social and Gender Policy	183	(20)
Callum G. Brown
SPORT, POLITICS, CLASS AND GENDER
Sport in the Slavic World before Communism: Cultural Traditions and National Functions	203	(47)
Wojciech Liponski
Epilogue	250	(1)
J.A. Mangan
Notes on Contributors	251	(2)
Abstracts	253	(3)
Select Bibliography	256	(5)
Index	261