Cowgirls of the Rodeo

Pioneer Professional Athletes

Mary LeCompte (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

1999
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-06874-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Uses biographies to describe women's transformation from serious rodeo athletes to beauty queens and their successful struggle to regain their place, and respect, as the competitive athletes that they are.

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Acclaimed as a foundational study of rodeo women, Cowgirls of the Rodeosurveys the early rodeo cowgirls' achievements as professional athletes. Mary Lou LeCompte follows the story through the near-demise of women's rodeo events during World War II and the phenomenal success of the Women's Professional Rodeo Association in regaining lost ground for rodeo cowgirls. Recalling an extraordinary chapter in women's history and the history of American sport, Cowgirls of the Rodeo deepens our understanding of the challenges facing women in the American West and in American sport.

Autor

Mary Lou LeCompte was a charter member of the North American Society for Sport History and an associate professor of kinesiology and health education at the University of Texas at Austin.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Sport and Society
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 481 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-252-06874-2 / 0252068742
• ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06874-4 / 9780252068744
• Zustand: Neuware