AHSS*2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Femininity, Sports Journalism, Reproductive Health
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In this unit, we will be looking at the women"s game and its long-standing struggle for legitimacy. From the outset of the modern game of hockey, women resisted the construction of the ideal female body and the ideal. Female athlete simply by participating in the sport. By resisting this construction, women challenged male-dominated hockey culture. This participation was not always met with support, and many people across the nation including women didn"t believe that women should be playing hockey. There was a brief, but golden age of women"s sports in the 1920s and 1930s. Here, organizations such as the loha provided a space for female players to compete at a high level. After the war, however, there was a reversal, and the women"s game stagnated. It did not really see a revival until the second wave of. Slowly though, the women"s game grew to such a level that it necessitated a world championship (1990).
