Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body
Author:   Jean Williams (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138922051


Pages:   202
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Author:   Jean Williams (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138922051


ISBN 10:   1138922056
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body - Introduction 2. Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England 3. The Style Stakes: Fashion, Sportswear and Horse Racing in Inter-war America 4. Given the Boot: Reading the Ambiguities of British and Continental Football Boot Design 5. ‘Ten Years Ahead of His Time’: The East End Elegance of Martin Peters 6. German Sports Shoes, Basketball, and Hip Hop: The Consumption and Cultural Significance of the adidas ‘Superstar’, 1966-1988 7. From Sportswear to Leisurewear: The Evolution of English Football League Shirt Design in the Replica Kit Era

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Jean Williams is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sporting History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Having written on women’s football since 1998, Jean has recently published A Contemporary History of Women’s Sport 1850-1960 (Routledge, 2014). She is currently writing Send Her Victorious: A History of Britain’s Women Olympians 1900-2014, forthcoming in 2016.

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