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Author: State Library of Massachusetts

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Published: 1891

Total Pages: 1112

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Gender, Sport, Science
Gender, Sport, Science

Author: J. A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1317968425

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Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating insights. This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpretive originality, her intellectual acuity and her ability to inspire colleagues and students. To explore unexplored patterns has been her extraordinary strength. The result has been continual originality of insight. These writings are thus a unique compilation of scholastic creativity of major interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

From Fair Sex to Feminism
From Fair Sex to Feminism

Author: J A Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1135175705

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First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this collection of essays brings together the previously discrete perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport. Using feminist ideas to explore the role of sport in women's lives, From Fair Sex to Feminism is a central text in the study of sport, gender and the body.

Sport and Exercise Science
Sport and Exercise Science

Author: Jack W. Berryman

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780252018961

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Sports medicine and the scientific study of exercise, sports, and physical education are enjoying a steady rise in popularity. This volume reveals that a number of current debates concerning the body, physical health, types and degrees of exercise, athletic contest, the use and abuse of aids to performance, and much more, have their roots in the nineteenth century and earlier.

Balkan Fascination
Balkan Fascination

Author: Mirjana Laušević

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0190269421

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In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this remarkable phenomenon to explore why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no familial or ethnic connection.

Able-Bodied Womanhood
Able-Bodied Womanhood

Author: Martha H. Verbrugge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1988-01-21

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0198021801

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As urban life and women's roles changed in the 19th century, so did attitudes towards physical health and womanhood. In this case study of health reform in Boston between 1830 and 1900, Martha H. Verbrugge examines three institutions that popularized physiology and exercise among middle-class women: The Ladies' Physiological Institute, Wellesley College, and the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Against the backdrop of a national debate about female duties and well-being, this book follows middle-class women as they learned about health and explored the relationship between fitness and femininity. Combining medical and social history, Verbrugge looks at the ordinary women who participated in health reform and analyzes the conflicting messages--both feminist and conservative--projected by the concept of "able-bodied womanhood."