HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sport Canada, Fields In Trust, 5Bx
28 Feb 2017
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Title ix: rethinking gender, fitness and physical education. Today: fitness and exercise before the 1950s. The gendering of physical fitness: discourses on the body, beauty, and health (1960s-80s, body difference and body sixe activism from the 1980s. Title ix: gender, sport and state intervention, late 20th century representation of female athletes. Organized sport created by and for white middle class men. In the process it produced hegemonic masculinity and stabilized ideas of natural difference and hierarchy. The (cid:884) wars advanced women"s popportunity in sport, after them not so much. * team for single women once they married they were forced off the. Number of women participants and variety of sports was on the rise. Toronto ladies major softball league (charged admission to games at. Women found popularity in sport through grassroots activities. All about the body, and anxious about women being seen through their body (cid:523)sweaty etc. (cid:524) ways that you wouldn"t normally see women.
