Category: Gender and Sport
1971 Women’s World Cup:Interviews with Playe...
Posted by Ella Williams | Feb 20, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Podcasts, Team Sports | 0
Courting Controversy:How Tennis Activism has Respo...
Posted by Leslie Crang | Feb 15, 2021 | Gender and Sport, Sport & Politics, Tennis | 0
The Relay Runners Who Joined the Resistance:
1930s-1940s Italian Athletes Lydia Bongiovanni and Elda Franco
Part 1
by Marco Giani | Feb 25, 2021 | Archival Research, Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS] | 0
FThe author would like to express thanks to Levio Bottazzi and Maura Quiriconi for having shared...
Read More1971 Women’s World Cup:
Interviews with Players
Carol Wilson
Captain of the Squad
by Ella Williams | Feb 20, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Podcasts, Team Sports | 0
Playing Pasts is delighted to present the latest in the series of 1971 Women’s World cup...
Read MoreWomen’s Football in Interwar Scotland:
Sadie Smith and the Legendary Rutherglen Ladies FC
Part 2
by Fiona Skillen and Steve Bolton | Feb 18, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Team Sports | 0
Introduction In part one of our article [which can be read HERE] we explored the developments of...
Read MoreCourting Controversy:
How Tennis Activism has Responded to the Margaret Court Arena in Australia and Her Homophobic Comments:
How Social Media Often Fails
by Leslie Crang | Feb 15, 2021 | Gender and Sport, Sport & Politics, Tennis | 0
Margaret Court’s 24 Grand Slam tennis titles still stands as a record. Her title wins came over...
Read MoreWomen’s Football in Interwar Scotland:
Sadie Smith and the Legendary Rutherglen Ladies FC
Part 1
by Fiona Skillen and Steve Bolton | Feb 11, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Team Sports | 3
Rutherglen Ladies FC, Mr James H Kelly & Sadie Smith Women’s football in Scotland has a...
Read MoreThe Italian Job:
The role of Italian sportswomen in 1933 Turin International University Games
by Marco Giani | Feb 8, 2021 | Athletics, Fencing, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Swimming & Diving, Team Sports | 0
The 1933 edition of the International University Games (IUG) was held in Turin, from 1 to 10...
Read MoreFlipping through Grazia’s Photo Albums:
Flashbacks from the Career of a 1940s-1950s Italian Figure Ice Skating Champion
Part 5
by Marco Giani | Jan 18, 2021 | Archival Research, Football, Gender and Sport, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Team Sports, Winter Sports | 0
All images are taken from Archivio personale Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona (except where noted),...
Read MoreLeague hockey, not for us, insist the Hockey Association
by Mark Evans | Jan 14, 2021 | Archival Research, Gender and Sport, Hockey | 2
In 2017 I wrote an article for “Playing Pasts” entitled “Women’s Hockey and the Introduction of...
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 3
by Peter Lovesey | Jan 11, 2021 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
To read Part 1 of this series click HERE and Part 2 HERE The Running Career Revived Violet...
Read MoreA Brief History of Mixed Hockey before WWII:
The ‘Mixers’ Have Hockey’s Rulers All Mixed Up
by James Ormandy | Jan 7, 2021 | Gender and Sport, Hockey, Team Sports | 2
Men and women who played hockey together were dubbed “the mixers” by one newspaper and mixed...
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 2
by Peter Lovesey | Jan 4, 2021 | Articles, Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
To read the first part of this series click HERE Who was Violet Piercy? Helpfully Piercy’s...
Read More“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 10
by Marco Giani | Jan 3, 2021 | Archival Research, Athletics, Basketball, Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Team Sports | 0
The author would like to express thanks to: Luigi and Francesco Ferrari, Rosa Mottino, Francesco...
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