Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation
eBook - ePub

Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

Kicking off a New Era

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

Kicking off a New Era

About this book

This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced.

It shows how women's football has made a significant contribution to the emancipation of women's football in many countries. It also traces the evolution of women's football in face of resistance, rejection and prejudice and describes women footballer's struggle for equal rights in a male dominated football world.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780714655093
eBook ISBN
9781135770570

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Tables
  8. Series Editor’s Foreword
  9. Prologue
  10. ‘M’s’ in Football: Myths, Management, Marketing, Media and Money. A Reprise
  11. 1 Women’s Soccer in the United States: Yet Another American‘Exceptionalism’
  12. 2 The Game of Choice: Girls’ and Women’s Soccer in Canada
  13. 3 Will the‘Iron Roses’ Bloom Forever? Women’s Football in China: Changes and Challenges
  14. 6 Asserting the Right to Play—Women’s Football in Denmark
  15. 7 The Fastest Growing Sport? Women’s Football in England
  16. 8 The Challenges of Women’s Football in East and West Germany: A Comparative Study
  17. 9 Small Country—big Results: Women’s Football in Norway
  18. 10 Women’s Football in the Republic of Ireland: Past Events and Future Prospects
  19. 11 A Breakthrough: Women’s Football in Sweden
  20. 12 From Heydays to Struggles: Women’s Soccer in New Zealand
  21. 13 Football Feminine—Development of the African Game: Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa
  22. 14 Women’s Football in Brazil: Progress and Problems
  23. Epilogue: Soccer: A World Sport for Women
  24. Women’s Soccer in the United States: Yet Another American ‘Exceptionalism’
  25. Biography
  26. Index