Women and the Olympic Dream

The Continuing Struggle for Equality, 1896-2021
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8647-9
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 583 g

On an April morning in 1896, unemployed single mother Stamata Revithi ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens, finishing in 5 hours 30 minutes. Barred from the first Olympic marathon, she was determined to prove herself.

Through more than a century of Olympic Games history, women athletes who were held back from swimming because long skirts were required, limited to running single-lap races because of fallacies about fragility or forced to endure invasive gender exams competed in spite of endless challenges and denials of their abilities. From Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020, this history of women's participation in the Olympic Games centers on athletes who overcame entrenched inequity to gain inclusion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaj, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Olympische Spiele, Paralympics

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Kaj is a blogger at kajmeister.com, a volunteer income tax preparer, and a part-time teacher. She lives in northern California.