Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Icons (Sport in the Global Society)

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 796.082 EAN: 9780714650883 ISBN: 0714650889 Label: Frank Cass Manufacturer: Frank Cass Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2001-05-31 Publisher: Frank Cass Studio: Frank Cass
Editorial Reviews: Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume. They each shared the same ambition: to free women's bodies through sport. Scholars have studied the paradoxical importance of sport in both reinforcing the male-dominated status quo and emancipating women from traditional repression in both Western and Eastern worlds, but the role that individuals played in achieving the political and economic freedom of women through sport has been neglected. This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.