bokomslag Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970
Historia

Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970

Eilidh MacRae

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  • 254 sidor
  • 2016
This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or managed by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered barriers which have influenced womens sporting experiences. Womens lives have always been shaped by the socially and physically constructed life-cycle, and this is all the more apparent when we look at female exercise. Even self-proclaimed sporty women have had to negotiate obstacles at various stages of their lives to try and maintain their athletic identity. So how did women overcome these obstacles to gain access to exercise in a time when the sportswoman was not an image society was wholly comfortable with? Oral history testimony and extensive archival research show how the physically and socially constructed female life-cycle shaped womens experiences of exercise and sport throughout these decades.
  • Författare: Eilidh MacRae
  • Illustratör: Bibliographie
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781137583185
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 254
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-07-28
  • Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan