The Lady Footballers PDF
By:James Lee
Published on 2013-09-13 by Routledge
This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment. Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British women during the late nineteenth century, virtually every segment of society opposed the idea of women playing football. In 1895, Nettie Honeyball and Florence Dixie formed the British Ladies’ Football Club (BLFC) intending to introduce the game to women and girls as a means of recreation and profit, over 10,000 spectators crowded the football ground in London to watch the BLFC in its first match. Nearly every London newspaper covered the event. These women endured public ridicule. They ignited the gender prejudice of the time, and confronted it head on wearing ‘men’s’ kit, and playing ‘men’s rules.’ Football's mystique was that it was a manly sport for men, thus these women footballers symbolized a paradox: those playing well were gender freaks; those not playing well proved it was a male game. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
This Book was ranked at 10 by Google Books for keyword Other Team Sports.
Book ID of The Lady Footballers's Books is 1r7aAAAAQBAJ, Book which was written byJames Leehave ETAG "J8GdmqwUS70"
Book which was published by Routledge since 2013-09-13 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781317996781 and ISBN 10 Code is 131799678X
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "141 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySports and Recreation
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download The Lady Footballers PDF Free
Download The Lady Footballers Books Free
Download The Lady Footballers Free
Download The Lady Footballers PDF
Download The Lady Footballers Books
No comments:
Post a Comment