TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macrae,Eilidh
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970
T2  - Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics,
SN  - 9781137583192 (ebook:PDF)
U1  - 941 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint)
KW  - Great Britain-History
KW  - Gender Studies
N1  - Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Physical Education Experiences -- Chapter 3 - Experiencing Exercise as a Young Woman -- Chapter 4 - Pregnancy, Menstruation and Active Women -- Chapter 5 - Exercise during Marriage and Motherhood -- Chapter 6 - Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Bibliography
N2  - This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or 'managed' by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered barriers which have influenced women's sporting experiences. Women's lives have always been shaped by the socially and physically constructed life-cycle, and this is all the more apparent when we look at female exercise. Even self-proclaimed 'sporty' women have had to negotiate obstacles at various stages of their lives to try and maintain their athletic identity. So how did women overcome these obstacles to gain access to exercise in a time when the sportswoman was not an image society was wholly comfortable with? Oral history testimony and extensive archival research show how the physically and socially constructed female life-cycle shaped women's experiences of exercise and sport throughout these decades
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58319-2
ER  -