Women's access to sports and physical education is a story made by advances and retreats, punctuated by discrimination, mentalities’ shifts and social achievements. In fact, by the end of 1800, women's participation in sporting events was only looked upon as entertainment, giving particular attention to body and facial postures, and to feminine beauty, setting physical strength, agility and skill of the athletes as second level of importance. The Summer Olympics are a clear illustration of this historical path. The "Women and Sport in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" conference, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - Nova University of Lisbon), seeks to analyze, in a critical and in...
From the ancient times men had been playing the leading role in the field of sports. At That time, i...
This study draws on a figurational sociological framework to examine the organisation and structure ...
This dissertation explores the growing popularity of sports in the latter half of the 19th century. ...
Women's access to sports and physical education is a story made by advances and retreats, punctuated...
When the first sport organizations developed in Europe in the early twentieth century, they carefull...
In Brazil, football only began to become known and structured during the transition from the ninetee...
The thesis dealt with the history of the Czech female sport. It also pointed out that the first step...
Women are, and have been for many years, actively involved as players, supporters and co-ordinators ...
In the history of French sport, the practice of physical activities by women is essentially consider...
In England, the latter years of the nineteenth century were a period of rapid and profound change in...
The main objective of this paper is to analyse the evolution of female athletes’ participation in th...
As in many other fields, in sorts too, women were latecomers and considered as 'the other sex' – at ...
The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern Euro...
The aim of this study is to describe the meaning of social representations associated with Brazilian...
This thesis is concerned with the participation of women and girls in the Olympic Games. In these da...
From the ancient times men had been playing the leading role in the field of sports. At That time, i...
This study draws on a figurational sociological framework to examine the organisation and structure ...
This dissertation explores the growing popularity of sports in the latter half of the 19th century. ...
Women's access to sports and physical education is a story made by advances and retreats, punctuated...
When the first sport organizations developed in Europe in the early twentieth century, they carefull...
In Brazil, football only began to become known and structured during the transition from the ninetee...
The thesis dealt with the history of the Czech female sport. It also pointed out that the first step...
Women are, and have been for many years, actively involved as players, supporters and co-ordinators ...
In the history of French sport, the practice of physical activities by women is essentially consider...
In England, the latter years of the nineteenth century were a period of rapid and profound change in...
The main objective of this paper is to analyse the evolution of female athletes’ participation in th...
As in many other fields, in sorts too, women were latecomers and considered as 'the other sex' – at ...
The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern Euro...
The aim of this study is to describe the meaning of social representations associated with Brazilian...
This thesis is concerned with the participation of women and girls in the Olympic Games. In these da...
From the ancient times men had been playing the leading role in the field of sports. At That time, i...
This study draws on a figurational sociological framework to examine the organisation and structure ...
This dissertation explores the growing popularity of sports in the latter half of the 19th century. ...