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Author: Jean Williams (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367473211
ISBN 10: 0367473216
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 27 July 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Britain and The Olympic Movement, 1. British Olympic Pioneers 1900-1912: Chattie, Lottie and Jennie, 2. The Olympic Inter-War Revival and the British Olympic Association: Gladys Carson and the 1924 Paris Games, 3. The First All-Female British Olympic Team at Lake Placid, USA in 1932: Mollie, Joan, Cecilia, and Megan, 4. The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games: How Gender and Politics Shaped the Career of Athlete Audrey Brown, 5. Austerity and the Second London Olympic Games in 1948: How Margaret Wellington Swam to Fame as ‘The Peppy Kid’, 6. Elizabeth II, Britain and Olympic Cold War Rivalries: Equestrian Pat Smythe and the New Elizabethans 1952-1960, 7. Britain’s Olympic Golden Girls and The Changing Media Industry 1964-1984: The Decline of Amateurism and The Rise of Sports Medicine, 8. Olympic Legacies: Lottery Funding, Professional Sport, Diversity and Fame, Appendix 1: Great British Female Team at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria and the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo, Appendix 2: Great British Olympic Women’s Team at the 1968 Mexico Summer Olympic Games and the Grenoble Winter Games, Appendix 3: Great Britain’s Female Team at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, Appendix 4: Great Britain’s Female Team at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montréal, Canada and the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, Appendix 5: Great Britain’s Female Team at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, USSR and the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA, Appendix 6: Great Britain’s Female Team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA and the 1984 Winter Olympics
Reviews
Gender is one such way what the Olympics represents is challenged, Jean Williams' pioneering Britain's Olympic Women is of the 'hidden from history' feminist tradition of uncovering those whom otherwise would be forgotten. -Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football
"""Gender is one such way what the Olympics represents is challenged, Jean Williams’ pioneering Britain’s Olympic Women is of the ‘hidden from history’ feminist tradition of uncovering those whom otherwise would be forgotten."" -Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football ""I can warmly recommend this book to all sporting people and researchers for the author’s new histories of female heroes and anti-heroes, based on her extensive sources and creative writing."" - Gerd von der Lippe, University of South-Eastern Norway"
Author Information
Jean Williams is Professor of Sport at the Institute of Sport and Human Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is also Non Executive Director at The Silverstone Motor Sport Museum.
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