Sport and Women: Social Issues in International Perspective by Gertrud Pfister, Ilse Hartmann-Tews

By Gertrud Pfister, Ilse Hartmann-Tews

Even supposing girl athletes are winning in every kind of activity, in lots of nations game remains to be a male area. This publication examines and compares the wearing studies of ladies from varied nations around the globe and gives the 1st systematic and cross-cultural research of the subject of girls in sport.Sport and ladies offers a wealth of recent study facts, together with in-depth case-studies of sixteen nations in North and South the USA, Asia, jap and Western Europe and Africa. furthermore, the e-book bargains comparative exams of the level to which ladies are represented in worldwide activity and the possibilities that ladies need to perform decision-making methods in sport.The publication illuminates a variety of key overseas concerns in women's activity, resembling cultural limitations to participation and the efficacy of political motion. it's hence crucial studying for anyone with an curiosity within the sociology, tradition and politics of game.

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Even though lady athletes are profitable in all kinds of activity, in lots of international locations activity continues to be a male area. This booklet examines and compares the carrying stories of girls from assorted international locations all over the world and provides the 1st systematic and cross-cultural research of the subject of ladies in game.

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This model of sports development, conceptualised and promoted by the Sports Council in the late 1980s and 1990s has been used as a framework for planning sport by both public and voluntary sectors (Houlihan and White, forthcoming). The Council of Europe also accepted it as a means of promoting a common European framework for sports development (Council of Europe 1992). The sport system in the UK The sport system in the UK is complex. Although the UK has a unitary rather than a federal system of government it incorporates four home nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

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