A Beautiful Game - International Perspectives on Women's Football

Zusatztext ...provides many useful historical references! and asks several questions on the role played by women in football today! and in the future. Informationen zum Autor Jean Williams is a Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University! teaches the MA in the History and Culture of Sport and Leisure and on the FIFA-sponsored International Masters in Management! Law and Humanities of Sport. Zusammenfassung FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared 'The Future is Feminine' in a 1995 press release. This title examines contemporary women's football internationally, with case studies from England, the United States, China and Australia. It analyses the status and image of the women's game from the late nineteenth century onwards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: From A Game for Rough Girls to A Beautiful Game: Dusting the Mirror of Women's Football. The US Case Study: The Girls of Summer?Case Study of the PR China: The Iron RosesCase Study of England: A Grass Ceiling? Case Study of Australia: Waltzing with the MatildasConclusion: Fair Game?

Product details

• Authors: Jean Williams, Williams Jean
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9781845206758
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-675-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Sociology: sport & leisure, Gender studies: women, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), Gender studies: women and girls