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Although female athletes are successful in all types of sport, in many countries sport is still a male domain. This book examines and compares the sporting experiences of women from different countries around the world and offers the first systematic and cross-cultural analysis of the topic of women in sport.Sport and Women presents a wealth of new research data, including in-depth case-studies of 16 countries in North and South America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe and Africa. In addition, the book offers comparative assessments of the extent to which women are represente

Title Sport and women : social issues in international perspective / edited by Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Gertrud Pfister.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge/ISCPES
Creation Date 2003
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Women and sport in comparative and international perspectives: issues, aims and theoretical approaches / Gerturd Pfister and Ilse Hartmann-Tews -- Women and sport in Norway / Kari Fasting -- Women and sport in the UK / Anita White -- The inclusion of women into the German sport system / Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Sascha Alexandra Luetkens -- Sports development and inclusion of women in France / Nicole Dechavanne and Ilse Hartmann-Tews -- Women and sport in Spain / Núria Puig and Susanna Sosler -- Women and sport in the Czech Republic / Ludmila Fialová -- Women and sport in Tanzania / Prisca Massao and Kari Fasting -- Women and sport in South Africa: shaped by history and shaping sporting history / Denise E.M. Jones -- Social issues in American women's sports / D. Margaret Costa -- Girls' and women's sport in Canada: from playground to podium / M. Ann Hall -- Brazilian women and girls in physical activities and sport / Ludmila Mourão and Sebastião Votre -- Women in Colombian sport: a review of absence and redemption / Rubiela Arboleda Gómez and Gloria Vallejo Rendón -- Women and sport in Iran: keeping goal in the hijab? / Gertrud Pfister -- Women's sport in the People's Republic of China: body, politics and the unfinished revolution / Fan Hong -- Gender relations in Japanese sports organisation and sport involvement / Machiko Kimura -- Women and sport in New Zealand / Shona M. Thompson -- Women's inclusion in sport: international and comparative findings / Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Gertrud Pfister.
Series International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport
Extent 1 online resource (305 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010709982705171
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