Sport and Women: Social Issues in International Perspective

by Pfister; Gertrud

• ISBN13: 9780415246286
• ISBN10: 0415246288
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines and compares the sporting experiences of women by focusing on an extensive series of national case studies from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, and Asia. The book presents a wealth of new research data, as well as comparative assessments on the extent to which women are represented in global sport and the opportunities that women have to participate in decision-making processes in sport.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Foreword	xiii
Series editor's preface	xiv
Acknowledgments	xvi
Women and sport in comparative and international perspectives: issues, aims and theoretical approaches	1	(14)
Gertrud Pfister
Ilse Hartmann-Tews
Women and sport in Norway	15	(20)
Kari Fasting
Women and sport in the UK	35	(18)
Anita White
The inclusion of women into the German sport system	53	(17)
Ilse Hartmann-Tews
Sascha Alexandra Luetkens
Sports development and inclusion of women in France	70	(13)
Nicole Dechavanne
Ilse Hartmann-Tews
Women and sport in Spain	83	(19)
Nuria Puig
Susanna Soler
Women and sport in the Czech Republic	102	(16)
Ludmila Fialova
Women and sport in Tanzania	118	(12)
Prisca Massao
Kari Fasting
Women and sport in South Africa: shaped by history and shaping sporting history	130	(15)
Denise E. M. Jones
Social issues in American women's sports	145	(16)
D. Margaret Costa
Girls' and women's sport in Canada: from playground to podium	161	(18)
M. Ann Hall
Brazilian women and girls in physical activities and sport	179	(13)
Ludmila Mourao
Sebastiao Votre
Women in Colombian sport: a review of absence and redemption	192	(15)
Rubiela Arboleda Gomez
Gloria Vallejo Rendon
Women and sport in Iran: keeping goal in the hijah?	207	(17)
Gertrud Pfister
Women's sport in the People's Republic of China: body, politics and the unfinished revolution	224	(14)
Fan Hong
Gender relations in Japanese sports organisation and sport involvement	238	(14)
Machiko Kimura
Women and sport in New Zealand	252	(14)
Shona M. Thompson
Women's inclusion in sport: international and comparative findings	266	(15)
Ilse Hartmann-Tews
Gertrud Pfister
Index	281