Women's Sports

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.

First sentence: Surveying the historical record, in which men have traditionally figured as movers and shakers while women have often been dismissed with a few remarks about the domestic sphere, feminist scholars sometimes speak of women's "invisibility."

Year

1991

Language

English

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Editions

1

Pages

339

ISBN

9780231069571

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