Women's sports : a history /
The subject is rife with social and cultural implications which Guttmann explores as he traces the development of women's sports from antiquity to the present, including the evolution and the revolution in the 20th century and contemporary controversies.
| Основен автор: | Guttmann, Allen. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
c1991.
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Съдържание:
- History of women's sports: From the Egyptians to the Etruscans
- Spartan girls and other runners
- Matrons and gladiators
- Lady hunts a stag
- Renaissance for women's sports?
- Cricketeers on the green and viragos in the ring
- Victorian age: Debility and strength
- Victorian age: From Swedish drill to field hockey
- Play days and muscle molls
- Europeans take the lead
- Women's sports and totalitarian regimes
- Evolutionary change
- Present state of women's sports: Revolutionary change
- Three contemporary controversies
- Index.