Sporting Gender

Sporting Gender
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780774824835
ISBN-13 : 0774824832
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sporting Gender by : Yunxiang Gao

Download or read book Sporting Gender written by Yunxiang Gao and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these women and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.


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