Jennifer Hargreaves

Heroines of Sport (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Difference and Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134585304
• Artikelnr.: 47886385

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Hargreaves is Professor of Sport Sociology at Brunel University. She wasone of the early pioneers of sport sociology and has edited the watershed text Sport, Culture and Ideology and written Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sports, both published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing Heroines of Sport: Making Sense of Difference and Identity
2. Race, Politics and Gender: Women's Struggle for Sport in South Africa 3.
The Muslim Female Heroic: Shorts or Veils? 4. Aboriginal Sportswomen:
Heroines of Difference or Objects of Assimilation? 5. Sporting Lesbians:
Heroic Symbols of Sexual Liberation 6. Impaired and Disabled: Building on
Ability 7. Struggling for a New World Order: The Women's International
Sport Movement