The Power, Politics, and Potential of Feminist Sports History: A Multi-Generational Dialogue
Author:
Thorpe Holly1,
Olive Rebecca2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Sport and Leisure Studies, University of Waikato
2. School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland
Abstract
Abstract
This article considers the role that feminism has played in the development of sport history. More than writing “women’s sport history,” “feminist sport history” critically (re)engages issues of theory, method, and representation in the ways we approach historical scholarship. However, feminism remains a diverse area of thought that includes both political and personal aspects, which creates differences in the perspectives that feminist scholars bring to the field. After an overview of the development and contributions of feminism to sport history, this article reveals some of the diverse feminist perspectives in the field by constructing a dialogue using comments from interviews and literature from three “generations” of feminist sport historians. Exploring differences in feminist approaches
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
History,Cultural Studies,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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