Women in Boots : Football and Feminism in the 1970s

Stell, Marion and Reid, Heather

ISBN 10: 1925984710 / ISBN 13: 9781925984712

Edité par Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2020

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MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 167 pages. Who could imagine that finding a suitable pair of football boots would prove almost impossible for women and girls in the 1970s? The focus of the women's liberation movement was fought in the streets, in universities, in workplaces and in the home. We add the football field to these sites of protest and empowerment for individual women. We follow the Australian and New Zealand national players - schoolgirls, factory workers, university graduates and professionals - as they navigate the male-dominated world of football. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Women in Boots : Football and Feminism in the 1970s
• Éditeur: Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1925984710
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781925984712
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Sport

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Synopsis

Who could imagine that finding a suitable pair of football boots would prove almost impossible for women and girls in the 1970s?

The focus of the women’s liberation movement was fought in the streets, in universities, in workplaces and in the home. We add the football field to these sites of protest and empowerment for individual women. We follow the Australian and New Zealand national players – schoolgirls, factory workers, university graduates and professionals – as they navigate the male-dominated world of football. This book never shies away from the uncomfortable aspects of their journeys, uncovering stories of vulnerability and strength, sexual harassment as well as sexual awakening, personal vilification as well as celebration, giving voice to a silencing in sport.

Written by historian Dr Marion Stell, in collaboration with football identity Heather Reid AM, this enlivened account is told with honesty, pain and humour.

À propos des auteurs

Dr Marion Stell is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland, as well as in the School of Humanities and Communication at the University of Southern Queensland in her hometown Toowoomba. She has over 30 years’ experience writing on history and sport and is the author of the popular books Half the Race: A History of Australian Women and Sport, a biography of world champion surfer Pam Burridge, and Girls in Sport: Soccer and Girls in Sport: Swimming. She has also written numerous academic articles and book chapters on sport and co-edited It’s How you Play the Game: International Perspectives on the Study of Sport. She was the foundation curator of the permanent exhibition Sportex at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Australia. She was appointed to Football Federation Australia’s Panel of Historians in 2012–19. In 2019 she gave the keynote address at the 3rd International Football History Conference in Manchester City. She began playing soccer in 1979. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5999-188X

Heather Reid AM was elected to the Board of Football Federation Australia in 2018 and held the position of Deputy Chair in 2019. She is the first woman CEO of a national Australian football organisation and was CEO of Capital Football for 12 years. She began playing soccer in Canberra in 1978 while working at the ANU and helped form the ACT Women’s Soccer Association in 1979. She is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to football and women’s sport and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Canberra in 2017. She was inducted into Football Federation Australia’s Hall of Fame in 2007. In 1979 she travelled to Sydney to watch the first international soccer game for women between Australia and New Zealand at Seymour Shaw Park, an event that sparked her lifetime commitment to football.