They Run with Surprising Swiftness

The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain

Peter Radford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2023
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4792-1 (ISBN)

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Women have battled for a place in the male-dominated world of sports throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, overturning obstacles and highlighting the changing position of women in societies around the world. This has become one of the defining stories of our age and the central story of women’s sports. They Run with Surprising Swiftness tells a different and much older, forgotten story with many of the same themes. Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain, women of all ages ran, fought, rode, played football, cricket, tennis, and other sports. They competed in tough, head-to-head events that required extraordinary endurance and skill. Though not labeled "athletic" at the time, these women performed feats that in our age would certainly earn that descriptor. They Run with Surprising Swiftness recognizes these remarkable athletes and their achievements and aims to restore them to their rightful place in the long history of women in sport.

Peter Radford is an Olympic medallist and world record holder, Professor at the University of Glasgow and Brunel University, and author of The Celebrated Captain Barclay: Sport, Money and Fame in Regency Britain.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Peculiar Bodies
Zusatzinfo	33 b&w illustrations, 5 tables
Verlagsort	Charlottesville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8139-4792-8 / 0813947928
ISBN-13	978-0-8139-4792-1 / 9780813947921
Zustand	Neuware