The Girl and the Game traces the history of women's organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to today's tendency to market women athletes, especially Olympians, as both athletic and sexual. When women actively participate in the symbols, practices, and institutions of sport, what they do is often not considered "real" sport, nor in some cases are they viewed as "real" women. What follows from this notion of sport as a site of cultural struggle is that the history of women in sport is also a history of cultural resistance.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bilbiographical references (p. 253-273) and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796/.082/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442602113
- LCCN
- GV709.18.C2
- LCCN Item number
- H254 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 284 p., [16] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326257 (OCoLC)181843200 (CaOOCEL)405085
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Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements 9
- Introduction 13
- Early Beginnings The New Woman and Athleticism 27
- Cycling to Physical Emancipation 28
- Sport and the Modern Mannish Maiden 32
- Sport in Educational Institutions 39
- Sport for Young Urbanized Working Women 45
- Women Seeking to Control Their Sports 51
- Assuming Control Womens Sport Run Almost By Women 53
- Forming the Womens Amateur Athletic Federation 57
- Grassroots Organizing of Team Sports 66
- Creating New Athletic Heroines 74
- Concerns of Physical Educators 80
- Girls Shouldnt Do It Debates over Competition and Sexuality 85
- Canadian Debates Over Competition 86
- Struggling for Success in International Competition 91
- Innuendoes About Femininity and Sexuality 100
- Unprecedented Participation 105
- Effects of World War II 112
- Sweetheart Heroines Athletic and Lovely 116
- The Other Barbara Ann Scotts 118
- Sport and the Postwar Social-Sexual Order 121
- Girls Next Door and Competing Mothers 125
- Confronting the Mannish Image 136
- Physical Educators Seeking Control 144
- Serious Athletes or Oddballs Transitional Years 147
- Women and the Governance of Amateur Sport 149
- Media Portrayal of Women Athletes 153
- Sports Ignored by the Media 164
- Sex Tests and Sexuality 170
- Feminist Activism Inching Towards Gender Equity 173
- Sex Discrimination in Recreation and Sport 175
- Effecting Change 178
- Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport 184
- Legal Challenges to Inequality 189
- Athletes and Feminism 195
- The Commodification of Physicality 1990s and Beyond 200
- Valorization of Team Sports 202
- Marketing Womens Sport 208
- From Equality to Equity 214
- Where Are We Today 217
- Hope for the Future 222
- Epilogue 224
- Notes 229
- Preface and Acknowledgements 229
- Introduction 229
- Early Beginnings The New Woman and Athleticism 230
- Assuming Control Womens Sport Run Almost By Women 236
- Girls Shouldnt Do It Debates over Competition and Sexuality 240
- Sweetheart Heroines Athletic and Lovely 246
- Serious Athletes or Oddballs Transitional Years 250
- Feminist Activism Inching Towards Gender Equity 254
- The Commodification of Physicality 1990s and Beyond 258
- Epilogue 263
- Sources 265
- Books Articles Reports Unpublished Work 265
- Newspapers 285
- Magazines 286
- Manuscript Collections 286
