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.

Contributor Mangan, J. A.

Imprint:London, England ; Totowa, NJ : F. Cass, 1987.

Description312 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:PART ONE: OVERVIEW: The female animal: medical and biological views on women and their role in 19th-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Charles Rosenberg -- The feminist physique: physical education and the medicalization of women's education / Paul Atkinson -- Sport, gender and society in a transatlantic Victorian perspective / Roberta J. Park -- PART TWO: 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 20th-century Melbourne / Ray Crawford -- Canadian women and physical activity, 1890-1930: media views / Helen Lenskyj -- PART FOUR: 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 19th-century North America / Patricia Vertinsky -- The amazon and the American "lady": sexual fears of women as athletes / Donald J. Mrozek.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [299]-303.

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