Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women
Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women

Author: Kathleen E. McCrone

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1040279562

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First published in 1988. This study can be situated within the history of women, women’s education, women’s rights, sport, leisure and recreation. Its aim is not to establish or submit to review what is known or thought to be known about the Victorian world-view and woman’s place within it, but rather to investigate reactions against this view and the emergence of a counter-view through sport and exercise. An attempt is made to rescue the English sportswoman from the obscuring mists of the past, to discuss her as a transitional figure between opposing views of womanhood and to place her within the context of the general movement for the emancipation of women as an important effect and cause — without necessarily assuming what women’s status in sport and in society should have been.

The Making of Englishmen
The Making of Englishmen

Author: Hilary M. Larkin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9004243879

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Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650.

Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England
Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England

Author: Anne Thompson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9004353917

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In Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England, Anne Thompson shifts the emphasis from the institution of clerical marriage to the people and personalities involved. Women who have hitherto been defined by their supposed obscurity and unsuitability are shown to have anticipated and exhibited the character, virtues, and duties associated with the archetypal clergy wife of later centuries. Through adept use of an extensive and eclectic range of archival material, this book offers insights into the perception and lived experience of ministers’ wives. In challenging accepted views on the social status of clergy wives and their role and reception within the community, new light is thrown on a neglected but crucial aspect of religious, social, and women’s history.

Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-30

Total Pages: 2424

ISBN-13: 1317679490

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This set examines sport and leisure from a social science viewpoint. The volumes included, originally published between 1984 and 1991 take a cross-disciplinary approach to explore the social, political and cultural roles of sport in today's society. They cover issues as diverse as inequality, nationalism, gender, and commercialisation and engage with a range of academic disciplines including cultural studies, history, politics and sociology.

Playing the Game
Playing the Game

Author: Kathleen E. McCrone

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1988-06-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780813116419

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" In England the latter years of the nineteenth century saw a period of rapid and profound change in the role of women in sports. Kathleen McCrone describes this transformation and the social changes it helped to bring about. Based upon a thorough canvas of primary and secondary materials, this study fills a gap in the history of women, of sport, and of education."

Trist Families of Devon
Trist Families of Devon

Author: Peter Trist

Publisher: Peter Trist

Published:

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0648499189

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Changes to the laws of inheritance combined with the traditional system of male entail facilitated the rise or maintenance of a small leisured class which could participate in the political community and the church. It seems likely that Nicholas Trist of Harberton and Totnes (1668-1741) leveraged his lucky double inheritance from his brother and maternal uncle to enhance his business interests. These could well have been in the woollen serge industry then enjoying its boom years. He was Mayor of Totnes twice and his son Browse Trist (1698-1777) represented the town as one of its two Members of Parliament, Totnes being one of the notorious Pocket Boroughs of eighteenth-century politics.