PERLS204 Lecture : Jan 25 - Victorian Women.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS204
• Professor: Zac Robinson

Document Summary

Jan 25 victorian ideals of sport and leisure part 2. Summary of previous events: after the 1870"s, sports no longer limited to the social elites, victorian middle classes reshaped sport according to their values: rational recreation and amateurism, this outlook was institutionalized by organizations (ex. It determined who could play and who couldn"t. The capacity to structure sport in preferred ways and to institutionalize these preferences in sport rules and organizations. The capacity to establish selective sport traditions (ex. The capacity to define the range of legitimate practices and meanings with dominant sport practices. Victorian ladies : the prevailing victorian view: women = weaker sex than men, they were viewed as being housewives and daughters and to serve men. Myth of female frailty: fears that women would hurt themselves; too gentle and frail: 2. ) ideals of femininity and domesticity: competitive activity was unladylike and unfeminine.