‘Playing like gentlemen while behaving like ladies’: contradictory features of the formative years of women's sport

1 May 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The International Journal of the History of Sport

Vol. 2 (1) , 40-52
https://doi.org/10.1080/02649378508713562

Abstract

(1985). ‘Playing like gentlemen while behaving like ladies’: contradictory features of the formative years of women's sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 40-52.

Keywords

WOMEN'S SPORT
PLAYING LIKE
LIKE GENTLEMEN
LIKE LADIES
CONTRADICTORY FEATURES
BEHAVING LIKE
FORMATIVE YEARS

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The Working Class Has Two Sexes
Monthly Review, 1976
Social Darwinistic ideas and the Development of women's education in England, 1880–1920
History of Education, 1976