Women, sport and modernity in interwar Britain

This book offers a unique examination of womenâ€TMs increasing involvement in sport during the period 1919-1939. Focusing primarily on sites of participation, it analyses where and how women accessed sport and their participation across class, age and marital groups. It also demonstrates the divers...

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Autor principal: Skillen, Fiona (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2013.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:This book offers a unique examination of womenâ€TMs increasing involvement in sport during the period 1919-1939. Focusing primarily on sites of participation, it analyses where and how women accessed sport and their participation across class, age and marital groups. It also demonstrates the diverse ways in which sport was incorporated into womenâ€TMs everyday lives, with particular emphasis on the important and yet often neglected area of informal participation, so fundamental to understandings of womenâ€TMs sport.
Descripción Física:288 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.