Freeing the female body : inspirational icons / editors, J.A. Mangan and Fan Hong.

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TextSeries: Sport in the global societyPublication details: London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781136335044
1136335048
9780203045473
0203045475
9781136335181
1136335188
9781136335112
1136335110
1283965135
9781283965132

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International journal of the history of sport.

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Freeing the female body.DDC classification:

796/.082 22

LOC classification:

GV439 .F67 2001eb

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71.33
76.11

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Contents:

'All the freedom of the boy': Elizabeth Cady Stanton, nineteenth-century architect of women's rights / Roberta J. Park -- A martyr for modernity: Qiu Jin, feminist, warrior and revolutionary / Fan Hong and J.A. Mangan -- A militant Madonna: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminism and physical culture / Patricia Vertinsky -- A lifetime of campaigning: Ettie Rout, emancipationist beyond the pale / Jane Tolerton -- Breaking bounds: Alice Profé, radical and emancipationist / Gertrud Pfister -- At the heart of a new profession: Margaret Stansfeld, a radical English educationalist / Richard Smart -- Alexandrine Gibb: in 'no man's land of sport' / M. Ann Hall -- A glittering icon of fascist femininity: Trebisonda 'Ondina' Valla / Gigliola Gori -- Ignoring taboos: Maria Lenk, Latin American inspirationalist / Sebastião Votre and Ludmila Mourão -- In pursuit of empowerment: Sensei Nellie Kleinsmidt, race and gender challenges in South Africa / Denise E.M. Jones -- Epilogue- prospects for the new millennium: women, emancipation and the body / J.A. Mangan.

Summary: Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume. They each shared the same ambition: to free women's bodies through sport. Scholars have studied the paradoxical importance of sport in both reinforcing the male-dominated status quo and emancipating women from traditional repression in both Western and Eastern worlds, but the role that individuals played in achieving the political and economic freedom of women through sport has been neglected. This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.

"First appeared as a special issue of the International journal of the history of sport (ISSN 0952-3367), vol. 18, no. 1, March 2001, published by Frank Cass"--Title page verso

Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume. They each shared the same ambition: to free women's bodies through sport. Scholars have studied the paradoxical importance of sport in both reinforcing the male-dominated status quo and emancipating women from traditional repression in both Western and Eastern worlds, but the role that individuals played in achieving the political and economic freedom of women through sport has been neglected. This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.