The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada - Softcover

Hall, M. Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155111268X ISBN 13: 9781551112688

Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2002

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Book by Hall M Ann

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"a wonderful piece of feminist history showing clearly how the history of women's sport is a history of cultural resistance." - Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia

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The Girl and the Game traces the history of women's organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to today's tendency to market women athletes, especially Olympians, as both athletic and sexual. When women actively participate in the symbols, practices, and institutions of sport, what they do is often not considered "real" sport, nor in some cases are they viewed as "real" women. What follows from this notion of sport as a site of cultural struggle is that the history of women in sport is also a history of cultural resistance.

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• Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 155111268X
• ISBN 13: 9781551112688
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288