In the September 1904 issue of La Culture Physique , buried toward the end of the magazine, is a small photomechanical image of Vulcana (née Kate Williams, c. 1883–1939). 1 Captioned “female athlete of the woman weightlifter type,” Vulcana’s image accompanies an article on female beauty (see
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Retouched and Remarkable: Female Athletes in La Culture Physique (1904) as Historical and Visual Documentation
Rachel Ozerkevich
Sweetheart Sport: Barbara Ann Scott and the Post World War II Image of the Female Athlete in Canada
Don Morrow
Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
Emalee Nelson
rules which solidified baseball into a male dominated sport. Through this, she reiterates what many sport scholars and female athletes have known for years—the struggle for society to embrace a woman’s femininity while participating in athletic activity. The book spends most of its time in the latter
Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star
Alex Nuñez
her identity as a female athlete. Understanding the limited opportunities as a young girl growing up in Cuba, Alvarez’s mother pushed her daughter to pursue sport as a way to wedge herself into middle- and upper-class activities. The politics of respectability appears as a constant theme and challenge
International Federations and National Governing Bodies: The Historical Development of Institutional Policies in Response to Challenging Issues in Sport
Jörg Krieger, Lindsay Parks Pieper, and Ian Ritchie
) believed male imposters were competing in women’s track and field, it introduced sex testing. In 1966, the IAAF required all female athletes undergo a visual inspection prior to participation, before switching to a chromosome test the following year. The IOC followed the IAAF’s example and required
In the Mirror of the Past: A History of Women’s Football in the Republic of Turkey
Yavuz Demir and Salih Tiryaki
, they hold importance as the first female athletes to participate in the Olympics representing Turkey. The fact that the families of Çambel and Aşeni were close to figures within the ruling party of the time also indicates why these two athletes were particularly selected. Çambel and Aşeni are
The Transformation of Taiwanese Women’s Physical Education in Schools During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895–1945)
Hsiang-Pin Chin and Ping-Chao Lee
; although women had been physically liberated, they must now be mentally liberated from traditional Confucian ideology. An Inaugural Seminar for Women’s PE and the Debut of Female Athletes at the Island-Wide Athletics Championship In the 1920s, sports became a fashionable form of recreation for women in
Volleygate: A History of Scandal in the Largest International Sport Federation
Tom Fabian
Second World War, the FIVB has been mired in scandals since the mid 1980s. Embezzling funds, sexploitation of female athletes, internal politicking, corrupt governance, and fraternizing with authoritarian regimes (for instance, Iran or the Philippines) are just some of the ways in which the leaders of
“The New Woman and the Manly Art”: Women and Boxing in Nineteenth-Century Canada
MacIntosh Ross and Kevin B. Wamsley
and, second, participating in very physical and violent events. As M. Ann Hall, Carly Adams, and others have shown, the female athletes of the early twentieth century, whether playing basketball for the Edmonton Grads or hockey for the Preston Rivulettes, trained and participated because they were
Carving Out Spaces of Resistance: Remembering Women’s Ski Jumping, Gendered Spaces, and Built Environments at Canada Olympic Park, 1987–2019
Charlotte Mitchell
autoethnographic inquiry is positioned within the work of feminist sport historians and the recognition of autoethnography within sport history as a tool with the capacity to explore how past experiences of female athletes continue to influence “the embodied experiences of female athletes” today. 19
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