Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women (RLE Sports Studies)
Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women (RLE Sports Studies)

Author: Kathleen McCrone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1317679644

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The nineteenth century was a golden age in British sports. Not only were sports immensely popular, but they began to assume the forms and qualities that still characterise them today. Moreover, the latter part of the century saw a significant participation in sports by women, and this book provides the first overall examination of this early development and the social changes that it helped to bring about. Since women’s entry into sports was chiefly a consequence of the campaign for better female education, the book begins with an account of sports at the Oxbridge women’s colleges, at the girls' public schools and at the new women’s physical training colleges. It then examines team sports such as hockey, lacrosse, and cricket and individual sports such as tennis, golf and cycling. Other chapters discuss the medical attitudes and prejudices toward women’s participation in sports and the role of sports in changing female dress.

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."

Women's Leisure in England, 1920-1960
Women's Leisure in England, 1920-1960

Author: Claire Langhamer

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780719057373

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This study examines the complex relationship between women and leisure, drawing upon recent feminist theory. The text charts the changes in perception, representation and experiences of leisure for women between 1920 and 1960, and relates the changes to life cycle lines.

Sport and the Emancipation of European Women
Sport and the Emancipation of European Women

Author: Gigliola Gori

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1134932421

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Sport and the Emancipation of European Women: the Struggle for Self-fulfilment explores the contributions of European women to the emancipation of women worldwide. It expands understanding of the need for their attitudes and actions and celebrates their achievements in freeing the female body from unwarranted political, cultural and social restraint in the courageous pursuit of the Enlightenment 's ' secular value system: ‘the unity of mankind and basic personal freedoms and {a} world of tolerance, knowledge, education and opportunity' (from Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World, 2004). The Collection records the pulling down of European barriers via sport to women’s realisation of ability and release of talent and their conquest of crushing inhibitions, inexcusable irrationality, intolerable prejudice and denial of opportunity : no barriers came down without confrontation. The struggle to overthrow prejudice set for the first time in the context of recent European history and the recent evolution of European sport, is described in this pioneering Collection. It is the first publication to focus specifically on European women and their struggle for emancipation via sport. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Sport in Australasian Society
Sport in Australasian Society

Author: J A Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1136332316

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As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local and regional esteem. This collection explores the political, social and aesthetic influence of modern sport, attitudes to the body and the evolution of specific Australasian visions of sport.

Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990
Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

Author: Susan Kingsley Kent

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1134755120

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Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.

Sporting Females
Sporting Females

Author: Jennifer Hargreaves

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1134912773

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1994 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award An outstanding contribution to feminist analysis of sport from the nineteenth century to the present day. Jennifer Hargreaves views sport as a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention. Placing women at the centre of discussion, no other book is as comprehensive.

Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970
Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970

Author: Eilidh Macrae

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-09

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1137583193

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This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or ‘managed’ by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered barriers which have influenced women’s sporting experiences. Women’s lives have always been shaped by the socially and physically constructed life-cycle, and this is all the more apparent when we look at female exercise. Even self-proclaimed ‘sporty’ women have had to negotiate obstacles at various stages of their lives to try and maintain their athletic identity. So how did women overcome these obstacles to gain access to exercise in a time when the sportswoman was not an image society was wholly comfortable with? Oral history testimony and extensive archival research show how the physically and socially constructed female life-cycle shaped women’s experiences of exercise and sport throughout these decades.