HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vassar College, Muscular Christianity, England Golf
17 Dec 2016
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Gender develops over time, you are not born with gender you are born with a sex. Sport can be a road to reinforcing dominant values, or a feeling to resist the dominant values and push back. Gender is continually being reconstructed over the course of our lives. Sport is also dynamic and can reflect shifting gender relations. Sport itself can challenge and change dominant notion of gender. Two approaches the point of feminine scholars is to look at these two: explores ideologies that support women"s exclusion time, but they didn"t have much time. Elite women, women of different classes, ethnicities, races, religions, Working class women would engage in informal activity when they had sexualities, ages. Gender as a way of signifying power. The experiences of women athletes reflect power relations in larger society. They played sport that was (cid:498)practical(cid:499) for women to play. Sport for women meant to reinforce their status. Physical strength and activity not the preserve of men.
