1st Edition
Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women (RLE Sports Studies) 1870-1914
1. Introduction 2. The ‘Lady Blue’: Sport and Exercise at Oxbridge Women’s Colleges 3. Sport, Exercise and the Public Schools Phenomenon 4. The Rise of the Physical Training Mistress 5. For the Sake of the Team: Hockey, Lacrosse and Cricket 6. Individual Sports: Lawn Tennis, Golf and Cycling 7. The Medical and Scientific Debate on Women’s Sport 8. Women’s Sport and Dress Reform 9. The Literature of Women’s Sport 10. Conclusion.
Biography
Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field
"A truly outstanding achievement is Kathleen E. McCrone’s Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women, 1870-1914….From every point of view—thoroughness, insightfulness, inclusion of visual materials—this is a superb work." Allen Guttmann
"...a pioneering and competent study by Kathleen McCrone….There is a great deal of excellent material in Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women…[and] the author’s scholarship is impressive…." David Rubinstein, Victorian Studies
McCrone has produced an important book about an important subject, one that was long overdue." Susan Kingsley Kent, The Historian
"...a remarkable book, signifying a maturity of scholarship in the growing arena of women’s sport history." Patricia Vertinsky, International Journal of the History of Sport
