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9780203221945

Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sport

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203221945

  • ISBN10:

    020322194X

  • Copyright: 2002-01-31
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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An outstanding contribution to feminist analysis of sport from the nineteenth century to the present day. The author presents sport as a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. xii
Introductionp. 1
Theories of Sportsp. 6
Sports Feminismp. 25
Nature and Culturep. 42
The Legitimation of Female Exercisep. 63
Recreative and Competitive Sportsp. 88
The Inter-War Yearsp. 112
Femininity or 'Musculinity'?p. 145
Gender Relations of Powerp. 174
Olympic Womenp. 209
Sports for All Womenp. 235
Into the Twenty-First Centuryp. 273
Notesp. 290
Referencesp. 292
Author Indexp. 321
Subject Indexp. 324
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