Heroines of Sport: The Politics of Difference and Identity

by Hargreaves; Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780415228497
• ISBN10: 0415228492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this unique account, Jennifer Hargreaves illustrates the ways in which the participation of women in sport across the world is tied to their sense of difference and identity. The book focuses on five groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism: South African women, Muslim women from the Middle East; Aboriginal women from Australia and Canada; and lesbian women and disabled women world-wide.

Author Biography

Jennifer Hargreaves is Professor of Sport Sociology at Brunel University.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations and acronyms	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introducing heroines of sport: making sense of difference and identity	1	(13)
Race, politics and gender: women's struggles for sport in South Africa	14	(32)
The Muslim female heroic: shorts or veils?	46	(32)
Aboriginal sportswomen: heroines of difference or objects of assimilation?	78	(51)
Sporting lesbians: heroic symbols of sexual liberation	129	(45)
Impaired and disabled: building on ability	174	(41)
Struggling for a new world order: the Women's International Sport Movement	215	(19)
Notes	234	(10)
Bibliography	244	(14)
Name index	258	(3)
Subject index	261