Sport and women : social issues in international perspective / edited by Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Gertrud Pfister. - London ; New York : Routledge/ISCPES, 2003. - xv, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport . - ISCPES book series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women and sport in comparative and international perspectives: issue s, aims and theoretical approaches / Gerturd Pfister and Ilse Hartmann- Tews -- Women and sport in Norway / Kari Fasting -- Women and sport in the UK / Anita White -- The inclusion of women into the German sport sy stem / Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Sascha Alexandra Luetkens -- Sports devel opment and inclusion of women in France / Nicole Dechavanne and Ilse Ha rtmann-Tews -- Women and sport in Spain / Nuria Puig and Susanna Sosler -- Women and sport in the Czech Republic / Ludmila Fialova -- Women an d sport in Tanzania / Prisca Massao and Kari Fasting -- Women and sport in South Africa: shaped by history and shaping sporting history / Deni se E.M. Jones -- Social issues in American women's sports / D. Margaret Costa -- Girls' and women's sport in Canada: from playground to podium / M. Ann Hall -- Brazilian women and girls in physical activities and sport / Ludmila Mourao and Sebastiao Votre -- Women in Colombian sport: a review of absence and redemption / Rubiela Arboleda Gomez and Gloria Vallejo Rendon -- Women and sport in Iran: keeping goal in the hijab? / Gertrud Pfister -- Women's sport in the People's Republic of China: b ody, politics and the unfinished revolution / Fan Hong -- Gender relati ons in Japanese sports organisation and sport involvement / Machiko Kim ura -- Women and sport in New Zealand / Shona M. Thompson -- Women's in clusion in sport: international and comparative findings / Ilse Hartman n-Tews and Gertrud Pfister.

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