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'The book is a splendid counter-point to all the current texts on sports sociology, which are focused on elite, male competitive sport and which rarely take the trouble even to acknowledge that women exist' - Professor Margaret Talbot, Leeds Metropolitan University
'There is no book on women in sports that matches the breadth and depth of Hargreaves's analysis ... an excellent work' - Jay Coakley, University of Colorado
'There is no book on women in sports that matches the breadth and depth of Hargreaves's analysis ... an excellent work' - Jay Coakley, University of Colorado
'There is no book on women in sports that matches the breadth and depth of Hargreaves's analysis ... an excellent work' - Jay Coakley, University of Colorado
'There is no book on women in sports that matches the breadth and depth of Hargreaves's analysis ... an excellent work' - Jay Coakley, University of Colorado
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An outstanding contribution to feminist analysis of sport from the nineteenth century to the present day. The author presents sport as a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention.
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Although for a century or more organized sports have occupied a central position in British cultural life, until comparatively recently they have been a neglected area of historical and sociological analysis. Read the first page
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