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Soccer, women, sexual liberation : kicking off a new era

Author: Hong Fan; J A Mangan
Publisher: London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2004.
Series: Sport in the global society.
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This collection considers women's football [soccer] in a global context, examining its progress and the challenges it has faced, and showing how it has made a significant contribution to female emancipation in many countries.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hong Fan; J A Mangan
ISBN: 0714655090 9780714655093 0714684082 9780714684086
OCLC Number: 56420354
Notes: "This group of studies first appeared as a special issue of Soccer and society ... vol. 4, nos. 2/3, Summer/Autumn 2003"--T.p. verso.
Description: xii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: 'M's' in football: myths, management, marketing, media and money: a reprise / Donna de Varona --
Women's soccer in the United States: yet another American 'exceptionalism' / Andrei S. Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman --
The game of choice: girls' and women's soccer in Canada / M. Ann Hall --
Will the 'Iron Roses' bloom forever?: women's football in China: hanges and challenges / Fan Hong and J.A. Mangen --
Chains, challenges and changes: the making of women's football in Korea / Eunha Koh --
Forwards and backwards: women's soccer in twentieth-century India / Boria Majumdar --
Asserting the right to play - women's football in Denmark / Anne Brus and Else Trangbæk --
The fastest growing sport?: women's football in England / Jean Williams --
The challenges of women's football in East and West Germany: a comparative study / Gertrud Pfister --
Small country - big results: women's football in Norway / Kari Fasting --
Women's football in the Republic of Ireland: past events and future propects / Ann Bourke --
A breakthrough : women's football in Sweden / Jonny Hjelm and Eva Olofsson --
From heydays to struggles: women's soccer in New Zealand / Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson --
Football feminine - development of the African game: Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa / Martha Saavedra --
Women's football in Brazil: progress and problems / Sebastião Votre and Ludmila Mourão.
Series Title: Sport in the global society.
Other Titles: Soccer and society.
Responsibility: editors, Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan.
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