Women's Sport in Africa

Herausgeber: Bale, John; Sikes, Michelle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This path-breaking collection of essays provides an introduction to a variety of dimensions of women's participation in African sports. Several key concepts are addressed in the book. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367740009
• ISBN-10: 0367740001
• Artikelnr.: 69893308

Autorenporträt

Michelle Sikes is a DPhil Candidate in Economic and Social History at Oxford University, Oxford, UK. John Bale is Emeritus Professor John Bale, Department of Education, Keele University, Keele, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: women's sport and gender in sub-Saharan Africa 2. 'Mother
of the nation': rugby, nationalism and the role of women in South Africa's
Afrikaner society 3. Experiences of moving: a history of women and sport in
Tanzania 4. Towards an understanding of netball in Malawi, international
sport development and identification: theoretical and methodological
sensitizing issues 5. Women's running as freedom: development and choice 6.
The way out? African players' migration to Scandinavian women's football 7.
Perceptions of the African Women's Championships: female footballers as
anomalies 8. Namibia's Brave Gladiators: gendering the sport and
development nexus from the 1998 2nd World Women and Sport Conference to the
2011 Women's World Cup 9. African women and sport: the state of play