Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport
Subtitle: A Man’s World?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 30, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9783030269081
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport: A Man’s World? (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics)