1st Edition

Women in Sports History

Edited By Carol Osborne, Fiona Skillen Copyright 2011
152 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Women are, and have been for many years, actively involved as players, supporters and co-ordinators in a range of sports and yet they are often missing from, or sidelined in, accounts of the history of these sports. Commenting first on the lack of inclusion of women in British sports history, the book goes on to examine aspects of women’s participation between the late-nineteenth century and... Read more

1. Introduction. The State of Play: Women in British Sport History  Carol A. Osborne and Fiona Skillen  2. A Window of Opportunity? Preliminary Thoughts on Women’s Sport in Post-war Britain  Joyce Kay  3. From Mixed-Sex Sport to Sport for Girls: The Feminization of Figure Skating  Mary Louise Adams  4. Frisky and Bitchy: Unlikely British Olympic Heroes?  Jean Williams  5. Lilli Henoch and Martha Jacob – Two Jewish Athletes in Germany Before and After 1933  Berno Bahro  6. ‘Ladies First’?: Establishing a Place for Women Golfers in British Golf Clubs, 1867–1914  Jane George  7. Against Hegemonic Currents: Women’s Rowing into the First Half of the Twentieth Century  Amanda N. Schweinbenz

Biography

Carol A. Osborne is a Lecturer at the School of Sport, University of Cumbria, UK.

Fiona Skillen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Football Institute, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, University of Central Lancashire, UK.