1st Edition

Women, Sport, Society Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft

Edited By Roberta J. Park, Patricia Vertinsky Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes. We have become increasingly aware that women have made contributions to physical education, dance and sport that go far beyond being teachers, athletes... Read more

1. Prologue: Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft: Extending the Dialogue on Women, Sport and Physical Activities  ROBERTA J. PARK and PATRICIA VERTINSKY

2. From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H’Doubler and Martha Hill  PATRICIA VERTINSKY, University of British Columbia, Canada

3. Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women’s Christian Association of the United States, 1920s -1950s  MARTHA VERBRUGGE, Bucknell University, USA

4. The Physical is Political: Women’s Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes, and the Public Sphere  JAIME SCHULTZ, University of Maryland, USA

5. From Alice Milliat to Marie-Therese Eyquem: Revisiting Women’s Sport in France, 1920s-1960s  THIERRY TERRET, University of Lyon, France

6. Eliza Maria Mosher. Pioneering Woman Physician and Advocate for Physical Education  ALISON M. WRYNN, California State University, Long Beach, USA

7. Leading the Way in Science, Medicine and Physical Training: Female Physicians in Academia, 1890-1930  SUSAN G.ZIEFF, San Francisco State University, USA

8. Empowering Women Through Sport: Women’s Basketball in Brazil and the Significant Role of Maria Helena Cardoso  CLAUDIA GUEDES, San Francisco State University, USA

9. Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman  DAVID CHAPMAN AND GIGLIOLA GORI, University of Urbino, Italy

10. Achievements that Women Attained In and Through the Field of Physical Education (And Some That They Have Lost Since the 1970s)  ROBERTA J. PARK, University of California, Berkeley, USA

11. Epilogue: Retrospectus  J.A.MANGAN

Biography

Roberta J. Park is based at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Patricia Vertinsky is based at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

With this collection, Park (emer., Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Vertinsky (Univ. of British Columbia) expand the definition of sport....the book is cohesive in its expanded take on sport....Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.—CHOICE, December 2011, S. K. Fields, Ohio State University