Women's Sports: A HistoryTraces the history of women in sports from ancient civilizations to the present, analyzing the relationship between social class and choice of sport, and the varying ways sporting women are perceived in different cultures |
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Women's sports: a history
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictDon't be dismayed because this looks like a textbook. Guttmann, author of The Games Must Go On ( LJ 1/84), does an excellent job of tracing the history of women's sports from antiquity to the present ... Leer comentario completo
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
A History of Womens Sports | 5 |
From the Egyptians to the Etruscans | 7 |
Spartan Girls and Other Runners | 17 |
Matrons and Gladiators | 33 |
The Lady Hunts a Stag | 41 |
A Renaissance for Womens Sports? | 53 |
Cricketeers on the Green and Viragos in the Ring | 67 |
The Europeans Take the Lead | 154 |
Womens Sports and Totalitarian Regimes | 172 |
Evolutionary Change | 189 |
The Present State of Womens Sports | 207 |
Revolutionary Change | 209 |
Three Contemporary Controversies | 251 |
Notes | 267 |
Bibliographical Note | 317 |
The Victorian Age Debility and Strength | 85 |
The Victorian Age From Swedish Drill to Field Hockey | 106 |
Play Days and Muscle Molls | 135 |
Términos y frases comunes
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| Título | Women's Sports: A History |
| Autor | Allen Guttmann |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Columbia University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 023106957X, 9780231069571 |
| Largo | 339 páginas |
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