Research Catalog

Title

Eat sweat play : how sport can change our lives / Anna Kessel.

Author

Kessel, Anna

Publication

London : Macmillan, 2016.

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Details

Description

xvi, 264 pages; 22 cm

Summary

What does it mean to be a sporty woman in the 21st century? From the launch of Net-A-Sporter, serving up sports clothing for fashionistas, to the introduction of #plankie as the new Instagram selfie for yoga bunnies; exercise for women has finally gone mainstream. But if sweating has never been so hot for female celebrities, then why are there still so many obstacles for girls and women when it comes to sport? Why do girls still hate school sports lessons? Why is sport consistently defined as male territory, with TV cameras replicating the male gaze as they search out the most beautiful women in the crowd? Will women ever flock to watch football, rugby and boxing in their millions? Or turn up to the park with friends for a Sunday morning kickabout? How long do we have to wait to see the first multi-millionaire female footballer or basketball player?

Alternative Title

How sport can change our lives

Subjects

• Sports > Psychological aspects
• Sports for women
• Sex discrimination in sports
• Feminism and sports

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. How to bunk a PE lesson: a rough guide -- 2. Sweating is so hot right now! Why our twenty-first-century obsession with exercise is all wrong -- 3. Why sport will make you successful -- 4. Sport and taboos -- 5. How to avoid the pregnant pause -- 6. The marathon of motherhood -- 7. `Are you the tea lady?' and other common questions -- 8. What does a woman's voice in sport sound like? (And when can we stop pretending to be blokes?) -- 9. Women's sport: changing the game.

ISBN

• 9781509808090
• 1509808094

OCLC

• 953229715
• SCSB-11600740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library