1. Sporting Females
2. Between 1919 and 1939 the number of clubs, schools and colleges affiliated to the All England Women’s Hockey Association, for example, grew from 89 to 2,100. Scotland witnessed a similar growth from eleven affiliated clubs and schools in 1900 to 186 in 1939. For further detailed discussion on the rise of sports opportunities for women, see Fiona Skillen, ‘When Women Look Their Worst: Women and Sports Participation in Interwar Scotland’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008) .
3. Søland Birgitte , Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2000 ), p. 52 .