附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-257) and indexes.
Introducing heroines of sport: making sense of difference and identity -- Race, politics and gender: women's struggles for sport in South Africa -- The Muslim female heroic: shorts or veils? -- Aboriginal sportswomen: heroines of difference or objects of assimilation? -- Sporting lesbians: heroic symbols of sexual liberation -- Impaired and disabled: building on ability -- Struggling for a new world order: the Women's International Sport Movement.
摘要:Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism.