This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers.
With an overview of the history of women in sport, by Sport Historian Professor Jean Williams, this book celebrates our female sports pioneers and legends as well as featuring insightful interviews with over 25 women in sport today. Full colour illustrated hardback.
The first book to properly theorise the development of the women's football and to place it in the context of wider debates on gender and sport.
The Legends Before the Lionesses examines how the legends who pioneered women's internationals from 1972 onwards inspired successive generations until that glorious day in 2022 when England women won the Euros.