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Extraordinary Sportswomen book cover

1st Edition

Extraordinary Sportswomen

Edited By Susanna Hedenborg, Gertrud Pfister Copyright 2018
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

Introduction

Susanna Hedenborg and Gertrud Pfister

1. The shady past of female boxers – what case studies in the USA reveal

Gertrud Pfister and Gerald Gems

2. Christl Cranz, Germany’s ski icon of the 1930s: the Nazis’ image of the ideal German woman?

Annette R. Hofmann

3. Lis Hartel – an extraordinary equestrian

Susanna Hedenborg

4. Ewy Rosqvist, rally queen: gender, identity and car racing at the beginning of the 1960s

Helena Tolvhed

5. Wanda Rutkiewicz – crossing boundaries in women’s mountaineering

Martina Gugglberger

6. ‘It’s not how you look; it’s what you do.’ Western Canadian Barrel Racers, Rodeo Legitimacy and Femininity

Desirea Weninger and Christine Dallaire

Biography

Susanna Hedenborg is Professor in Sport Science, Malmö University, Sweden.

Gertrud Pfister is Professor Emeritus of Sport, Individual & Society, Copenhagen University, Denmark

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