The Rise And Fall Of The Sportswoman

Author : Gregory Kent Stanley
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780820441160
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Sportswoman written by Gregory Kent Stanley and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of the Sportswoman examines health and fitness advice for American women in the years 1860-1940. It describes the factors that propelled the sportswoman to the level of a highly visible cultural symbol. Blending together medical, educational, social, and cultural history, it also discusses how this symbol eventually collapsed, all but disappearing from the landscape of American social thought.

Author : Gregory Kent Stanley
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Sportswoman written by Gregory Kent Stanley and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of the Sportswoman examines health and fitness advice for American women in the years 1860-1940. It describes the factors that propelled the sportswoman to the level of a highly visible cultural symbol. Blending together medical, educational, social, and cultural history, it also discusses how this symbol eventually collapsed, all but disappearing from the landscape of American social thought.

Author : Christopher E. Forth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838667
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Culture written by Christopher E. Forth and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies and Culture is a collection of contemporary interdisciplinary research on bodies from emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences disciplines that addresses issues relating to a range of historical and contemporary contexts, theories, and methods. Examining the diversity and capabilities of bodies, this volume focuses on the role of culture in shaping forms and conceptions of the corporeal. In particular, these essays interrogate the role of the body in articulating and reinforcing social differences, especially the effects of racist, colonialist, and other hegemonic ideologies on the agency and diversity of bodies. Bodies and Culture also considers the place of the body in forming identities, images, and narratives of individuals, and the practices of modifying bodies and social roles through physical activities from exercise to artistic performance. This collection will appeal to scholars in a wide range of areas, including literature, anthropology, sociology, art history, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and fat studies.

Author : Gregory Kent Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Health written by Gregory Kent Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angela Firkus
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641846
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Early Women Celebrities written by Angela Firkus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well before television and the internet, there were women who sought fame, flirted with infamy, and actively engaged with their fan base. In today's pop culture world, it can be hard to understand what the lives of these women were like. In their pre-suffrage world, women who attracted attention were considered scandalous and it was largely uncommon for women to become celebrities. Women who rose to fame in those times had to put up with societal standards for women on top of the lack of privacy and free speech. This book provides the details and context to let us know the women who captured America's heart in the 19th century. Rather than looking at influential women who strictly avoided notoriety, it covers the lives of 18 celebrities like Lydia Maria Child, Sojourner Truth, and Jane Addams.

Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning Ways written by Sue Macy and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic documentation of two centuries of women athletes, discussing some of the controversies that arose over women's participation in traditionally male arenas, and celebrating their accomplishments.

Author : Donald L. Deardorff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313095469
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports written by Donald L. Deardorff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the available literature on sports in American culture during the last two decades of the 20th century is a companion to Jack Higg's Sports: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1982). The types of individual or team sports included in this volume include those that are viewed as physical contests engaged in for physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological fulfillment. With a focus on books alone, chapters review the available literature regarding sports and each concludes with a bibliography. Academic journals likely to contain articles on the topics discussed are listed at the end of each chapter. Twelve chapters discuss sports and American history, business and law, education, ethnicity and race, gender, literature, philosophy and religion, popular culture, psychology, science and technology, sociology and world history. This reference and guide to further research will appeal to scholars of popular culture and sports. An index and two appendixes are included, one listing important dates in American sports from 1980 through 2000 and one listing sports halls of fame, museums, periodicals, and websites.

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075234
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports in Chicago written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago has garnered national recognition by winning the World Series, the Super Bowl, and a string of titles in the National Basketball Association. But amateur sports also play a large role in the city's athletic traditions, especially in schools and youth leagues. In fourteen chapters, experts focus on multiple aspects of Chicago sports, including long looks at amateur boxing, the impact of gender and ethnicity in sports, the politics of horse racing and stadium building, the lasting scandal of the Black Sox, and the perpetual heartbreak of the Cubs. Well illustrated with forty photographs, this volume will help historians and sports fans alike appreciate the longstanding importance of sports in Chicago. Contributors are Peter Alter, Robin F. Bachin, Larry Bennett, Linda J. Borish, Gerald Gems, Elliott J. Gorn, Richard Kimball, Gabe Logan, Daniel A. Nathan, Timothy Neary, Steven A. Riess, John Russick, Timothy Spears, Costas Spirou, and Loic Wacquant.

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644098
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Sports written by Tim Delaney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport, presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination of athletics, this text also highlights many of sports' positive features. This new edition includes significantly updated statistics, data and information along with updated popular culture references and real-world examples. Newly explored is the impact of several major world events that have left lasting effects on the sports realm, including a global pandemic (SARS-CoV-2, or Covid-19) and social movements like Black Lives Matter and Me Too. Another new topic is the "pay for play" movement, wherein college athletes demanded greater compensation and, at the very least, the right to profit from their own names, images and likenesses.

Author : Adrienne N. Milner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440851255
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Sports written by Adrienne N. Milner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a breadth of topics surrounding the current state of women in sports, this two-volume collection taps current events, sociological and feminist theory, and recent research to contextualize women's experiences in sports within a patriarchal society and highlight areas for improvement. Women are continuing to break barriers in all aspects of sports, and a growing number of people are beginning to recognize sex disparities in sports as a social problem. Additionally, women's inclusion and exclusion in sports—and their equitable and inequitable treatment on the playing field—have large-scale social, legal, health, and economic consequences. Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles comprehensively examines the state of women in sports by considering current events, controversies, and trends as well as qualitative and quantitative research. The contributors to this volume take a sociological approach to discussing women in sports by questioning dominant assumptions surrounding notions of women's biological athletic inferiority and by examining other social constructs that affect women's experiences in sports, such as race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. The book offers a complete and up-to-date account of women's experiences in sports through coverage of the history of women's participation in sports (with a focus on exceptional female athletes) and of the increasing number of women who are competing in traditionally male sports, such as football, baseball, and mixed martial arts. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for the issues of equity that women face, both within the world of sports and in society in general.