Heroines of Sport Heroines of Sport

Heroines of Sport

The Politics of Difference and Identity

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    • 779,00 kr

Utgivarens beskrivning

Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world: Black women in South Africa; Muslim women from the Middle East; Aboriginal women from Australia and Canada; and lesbian and disabled women from different countries worldwide. It also asks searching questions about colonialism and neo-colonialism in the women's international sport movement.
The particular groups of women featured in the book reflect the need to look at specific categories of difference relating to class, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion and sexual orientation. In her account, Jennifer Hargreaves reveals how the participation of women in sport across the world is tied to their sense of difference and identity. Based on original research each chapter includes material which relates to significant political and cultural developments.
Heroines of Sport will be invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport sociology, and will also be relevant for students working in women's studies and other specialized fields, such as development studies or the politics of Aboriginality, disability, Islam, race and sexuality.

GENRE
Faktaböcker
UTGIVEN
2013
11 januari
SPRÅK
EN
Engelska
LÄNGD
304
Sidor
UTGIVARE
Taylor and Francis
STORLEK
2
MB

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Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies) Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies)
2014
Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality
2014
Physical Culture, Power, and the Body Physical Culture, Power, and the Body
2006
Sporting Females Sporting Females
2002