Heroines of sport : the politics of difference and identity / Jennifer Hargreaves.
"In this unique account, Jennifer Hargreaves illustrates the ways in which the participation of women in sport across the world is tied to their sense of difference and identity. The book focuses on five groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's spo...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Online Access: | SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Summary: | "In this unique account, Jennifer Hargreaves illustrates the ways in which the participation of women in sport across the world is tied to their sense of difference and identity. The book focuses on five groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism: South African women, Muslim women from the Middle East; Aboriginal women from Australia and Canada; and lesbian women and disabled women world-wide."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic document (xiv, 284 p.) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203466063 0585451494 1134585314 1280338067 9780203466063 9780585451497 9781134585311 9781280338069 |