Title: Histories of women's work in global sport :
Authors: Cervin, Georgia,; Nicolas, Claire,
Date: 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Physical description: xxv, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Sport has never been a man's world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival material to uncover histories of women's work in sport, from swimming teachers in nineteenth-century England to national sports administrators in twentieth-century Côte d'Ivoire, and many places in between. Their work has been varied, holding roles as teachers, wives, and secretaries in sporting contexts around the world, often with diplomatic functions including at the 1968 and 1992 Olympic Games. Finally, this collection shows how gender initiatives have developed in sporting institutions in Europe and International Sport Federations today.
Subject headings (LCSH): Sports administration; Women sports executives