The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2002 - Sports & Recreation - 284 pages

The Girl and the Game traces the history of women's organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to today's tendency to market women athletes, especially Olympians, as both athletic and sexual. When women actively participate in the symbols, practices, and institutions of sport, what they do is often not considered "real" sport, nor in some cases are they viewed as "real" women. What follows from this notion of sport as a site of cultural struggle is that the history of women in sport is also a history of cultural resistance.

 

Contents

Womens Sport Run Almost By Women
41
CHAPTER 3
221
Debates over Competition and Sexuality
228
CHAPTER 7
236
1990s and Beyond
246
Sources
253
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M. Ann Hall is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta, where she taught for over 30 years. She is the author of several books, including "The Grads Are Playing Tonight!: The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club" (2011).

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