Qualifying times : points of change in U.S. women's sport /
This perceptive, lively study explores U.S. women's sport through historical "points of change": particular products or trends that dramatically influenced both women's participation in sport and cultural responses to women athletes. Beginning with the seemingly innocent ponytail...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Sport and society.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the politics of the ponytail
- What shall we wear for tennis?
- Commercial tampons and the sportswoman, 1936-52
- Rules, rulers, and the "right kind" of competition
- Women's sport and questionable sex
- From "women in sports" to the "new ideal of beauty"
- A cultural history of the sports bra
- Something to cheer about?
- Epilogue: cheering with reserve.