Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking off a New Era

by Hong; Fan

• ISBN13: 9780714655093
• ISBN10: 0714655090
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Women's soccer is one of the world's fastest-growing sports but has been subjected to little academic scrutiny. This collection considers women's football in a global context and analyses its progress, and the challenges and problems it has faced. It shows how women's football has made a significant contribution to the emancipation of women's football in many countries. It also traces the evolution of women's football in face of resistance, rejection and prejudice and describes women footballer's struggle for equal rights in a male dominated football world. Published to coincide with the Women's World Cup in the USA, which begins in September 2003 in Atlanta, this is the first in-depth global study of women's football in 15 countries across the world.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	ix
Series Editor's Foreword	xi
Prologue	1	(6)
Introduction- 'M's' in Football: Myths, Management, Marketing, Media and Money. A Reprise
Donna de Varona	7	(7)
1 Women's Soccer in the United States: Yet Another American 'Exceptionalism'
Andrei S. Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman	14	(16)
2 The Game of Choice: Girls' and Women's Soccer in Canada
M. Ann Hall	30	(17)
3 Will the 'Iron Roses' Bloom Forever? Women's Football in China: Hanges and Challenges
Fan Hong and J.A. Mangan	47	(20)
4 Chains, Challenges and Changes: The Making of Women's Football in Korea
Eunha Koh	67	(13)
5 Forwards and Backwards: Women's Soccer in Twentieth-Century India
Boria Majumdar	80	(15)
6 Asserting the Right to Play - Women's Football in Denmark
Anne Brus and Else Trangbæk	95	(17)
7 The Fastest Growing Sport? Women's Football in England
Jean Williams	112	(16)
8 The Challenges of Women's Football in East and West Germany: A Comparative Study
Gertrud Pfister	128	(21)
9 Small Country - Big Results: Women's Football in Norway
Kari Fasting	149	(13)
10 Women's Football in the Republic of Ireland: Past Events and Future Prospects
Ann Bourke	162	(20)
11 A Breakthrough: Women's Football in Sweden
Jonny Hjelm and Eva Olofsson	182	(23)
12 From Heydays to struggles: Women's Soccer in New Zealand
Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson	205	(20)
13 Football Feminine - Development of the African Game: Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa
Martha Saavedra	225	(29)
14 Women's Football in Brazil: Progress and Problems
Sebastião Votre and Ludmila Mourão	254	(14)
Epilogue	268	(3)
Select Bibliography	271	(4)
Notes on the Contributors	275	(2)
Abstracts	277	(6)
Index	283