Jean Williams

A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One (eBook, PDF)

Sporting Women, 1850-1960

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an historical survey of women's sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women's sport has so far been shaped by academic writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317746669
• Artikelnr.: 40831064

Autorenporträt

Jean Williams is a Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Women and Sport or Women's Sport? 1. Victorian Sporting
Variety, Women's Education and Writing 2. The Olympic Games, Popular
Imperialism and the "Woman Question" 3. An Age of Speed 4. Football
Interconnections and Olympic Parallels 5. "For the Most Part, the Team Was
Given Private Hospitality of the Most Lavish Sort": Women's Hockey,
Brooklands and Aspects of Empire 6. Women, Sport and Culture: From the 1948
London Olympic Games to Rome 1960. Conclusion. Appendix 1: Clubs Belonging
to the All England Women's Hockey Association in the 1899-1900 Season and
Their Colours. Appendix 2: Dorothy Gwyn Jeffreys; Winifred Gwyn Jeffreys
and Edith M. Thomson Hockey Jottings (unpublished: Kensington, London circa
1898). All England Women's Hockey Association (AEWHA) File D/1/ 1 Bath
University Archive and Special Collections, Bath. Appendix 3: Women's
Participation in the Modern Olympic Summer Games 1896-2004. Appendix 4:
Schedule of International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA)
Conferences 1930-1983. Appendix 5: Scotland versus Ireland Programme 23
March 1935 at Glasgow High Schools' Club Ground, Old Anniesland. Appendix
6: Wales versus England Programme 10 March 1935 Merton Abbey, Wimbledon.
Appendix 7: England V South Africa Programme 28 November 1936 Merton Abbey,
Wimbledon. Appendix 8: The Brooklands Racing Careers of Some Prominent
Women Drivers Between 1920-1938.