This perceptive, lively study explores U.S. women's sport through historical "points of change": particular products or trends that dramatically influenced both women's participation in sport and cultural responses to women athletes.
Beginning with the seemingly innocent ponytail, the subject of the Introduction, scholar Jaime Schultz challenges the reader to look at the historical and sociological significance of now-common items such as sports bras and tampons and ideas such as sex testing and competitive cheerleading. Tennis wear, tampons, and sports bras all facilitated women’s participation in physical culture, while physical educators, the aesthetic fitness movement, and Title IX encouraged women to challenge (or confront) policy, financial, and cultural obstacles.
While some of these points of change increased women's physical freedom and sporting participation, they also posed challenges. Tampons encouraged menstrual shame, sex testing (a tool never used with male athletes) perpetuated narrowly-defined cultural norms of femininity, and the late-twentieth-century aesthetic fitness movement fed into an unrealistic beauty ideal.
Ultimately, Schultz finds that U.S. women's sport has progressed significantly but ambivalently. Although participation in sports is no longer uncommon for girls and women, Schultz argues that these "points of change" have contributed to a complex matrix of gender differentiation that marks the female athletic body as different than--as less than--the male body, despite the advantages it may confer.
Автор: Cahn Susan K. Название: Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women`s Sport ISBN: 0252080645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252080647 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3135.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack.
Автор: Wesoky Sharon Название: Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization ISBN: 0415864917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415864916 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.
Название: Muslim women and sport ISBN: 0415522374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415522373 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women`s lives in the modern world.
Автор: Williams, Jean Название: Contemporary history of women`s sport ISBN: 1138695114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138695115 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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.
Название: Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region ISBN: 1138895725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138895720 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing on women, sport and exercise in the Asia-Pacific region, this book presents a diverse range of empirical case studies from areas such as India, Fiji, North Korea and Japan, shedding new light on the nexus of sport, exercise, gender, sexuality and power.
Название: Sport and Its Female Fans ISBN: 0415629691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415629690 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why do women follow sports? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field.
Автор: Kim Toffoletti Название: Women Sport Fans: Identification, Participation, Representation ISBN: 0367233304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367233303 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the growing visibility and interest in women who follow sport. It presents the latest data on women`s sport spectatorship in different regions of the world, posing new theoretical paradigms to study the globalised nature of female sport fandom.
Автор: Kim Toffoletti, Peter Mewett Название: Sport and Its Female Fans ISBN: 0415883814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415883818 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why do women follow sports? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field.
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