KINESIOL 4T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Campbellsville University, 7 Women, Sexual Identity
3 Jul 2016
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How are gender relations evident within contemporary sport: going forward in some senses and backwards in others. Shelby osborne defensive back at campbellsville university. Royal and ancient golf club adds first female members february 2015. After 260 years of male exclusivity, 7 women introduced as members including princess anne! There is a lengthy history of sport being seen as incompatible with feminine qualities. 19th and 20th century opponents of women"s sport inferred that college women who participated in exercise would become unfeminine, muscular, and subject to uterine damage. Dominating views that women engaging in sport were an unattractive spectacle: still relevant female boxers. For women, bicycling offered the potential for physical mobility and the benefits of healthy, active recreation, as well as a new sense of liberty from restrictive dress and chaperonage . Concern that the qualities and behaviours associated with sport were contrary to real femininity. Tennis was the most popular sport of the entire victorian era.
