From "fair sex" to feminism : sport and the socialization of women in the industrial and post-industrial eras / edited by J.A. Mangan and Roberta J. Park.

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Other Authors: Mangan, J. A., Park, Roberta J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, England ; Totowa, NJ : F. Cass, 1987.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Overview. The female animal : medical and biological views of women and their role in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Charles Rosenberg
  • The feminist physique : physical education and medicalization of women's education / Paul Atkinson
  • Sport, gender and society in a transatlantic Victorian perspective / Roberta J. Park
  • pt. 2. British perspectives. Play up! Play up! And play the game! : sport at the late Victorian girls' public schools / Kathleen E. McCrone
  • Victorian familism and the formative years of female sport / Jennifer A. Hargreaves
  • The making and breaking of a female tradition : women's physical education in England, 1880-1980 / Sheila Fletcher
  • Pioneering women : recreational and sporting opportunities in a remote colonial setting / Scott A.G.M. Crawford
  • Moral and manly : girls and games in early twentieth-century Melbourne / Ray Crawford
  • Canadian women and physical activity, 1890-1930 : media views / Helen Lenskyj
  • pt. 4. American perspectives. "Good wives" and "gardeners", "spinners and fearless riders" : middle- and upper-rank women in the early American sporting culture / Nancy L. Struna
  • Body shapes : the role of the medical establishment in informing female exercise and physical education in ninetheenth-century North America / Patricia Vertinsky
  • The Amazon and the American "lady" : sexual fears of women as athletes / Donald J. Mrozek.