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Extraordinary Sportswomen (Paperback)
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Extraordinary Sportswomen (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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As in many other fields, in sports too, women were latecomers and
considered as the 'other sex' - at least until the twenty-first
century. When sport developed in its modern forms towards the
second half of the nineteenth century, women were (and to a certain
degree still are) considered too weak to participate in strenuous
physical activities, and were thus excluded from various sports,
competitions and events. Although they gradually gained access to
all sports, competitive sport was - and is still today - one of the
few areas in modern societies with strict gender segregation: in
most sports, men do not compete against women and playing sport is
always 'doing gender'. Yet, in many epochs and in many regions of
the world, there were female 'rebels' who did not comply with the
ideals, norms and rules that contributed to women's
marginalization. Who were these women, what were their aims and
motivations, which strategies did they apply and how did they fight
and win their battles against the gender order of their time? The
chapters were originally published as a special issue of Sport in
Society.
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