Roberta J. Park is based at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.Patricia Vertinsky is based at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

With this collection, Park (emer., Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Vertinsky (Univ. of British Columbia) expand the definition of sport....the book is cohesive in its expanded take on sport....Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.—CHOICE, December 2011, S. K. Fields, Ohio State University

• 1. Prologue: Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft: Extending the Dialogue on Women, Sport and Physical Activities Roberta J. Park and Patricia Vertinsky 2. From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H’Doubler and Martha Hill Patricia Vertinsky 3. The Physical is Political: Women’s Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes, and the Public Sphere Jaime Schultz 4. From Alice Milliat to Marie-Therese Eyquem: Revisiting Women’s Sport in France, 1920s-1960s Thierry Terret 5. Eliza Maria Mosher. Pioneering Woman Physician and Advocate for Physical Education Alison M. Wrynn 6. Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women’s Christian Association of the United States, 1920s-1950s Martha H. Verbrugge 7. Leading the Way in Science, Medicine and Physical Training: Female Physicians in Academia, 1890-1930 Susan G. Zieff 8. Empowering Women Through Sport: Women’s Basketball in Brazil and the Significant Role of Maria Helena Cardoso Claudia M. Guedes 9. Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman David Chapman and Gigliola Gori 10. Women as Leaders: What Women Have Attained In and Through the Field of Physical Education Roberta J. Park 11. Epilogue: Retrospectus J.A. Mangan

Roberta J. Park is based at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.Patricia Vertinsky is based at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

With this collection, Park (emer., Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Vertinsky (Univ. of British Columbia) expand the definition of sport....the book is cohesive in its expanded take on sport....Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.—CHOICE, December 2011, S. K. Fields, Ohio State University

• 1. Prologue: Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft: Extending the Dialogue on Women, Sport and Physical Activities Roberta J. Park and Patricia Vertinsky 2. From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H’Doubler and Martha Hill Patricia Vertinsky 3. The Physical is Political: Women’s Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes, and the Public Sphere Jaime Schultz 4. From Alice Milliat to Marie-Therese Eyquem: Revisiting Women’s Sport in France, 1920s-1960s Thierry Terret 5. Eliza Maria Mosher. Pioneering Woman Physician and Advocate for Physical Education Alison M. Wrynn 6. Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women’s Christian Association of the United States, 1920s-1950s Martha H. Verbrugge 7. Leading the Way in Science, Medicine and Physical Training: Female Physicians in Academia, 1890-1930 Susan G. Zieff 8. Empowering Women Through Sport: Women’s Basketball in Brazil and the Significant Role of Maria Helena Cardoso Claudia M. Guedes 9. Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman David Chapman and Gigliola Gori 10. Women as Leaders: What Women Have Attained In and Through the Field of Physical Education Roberta J. Park 11. Epilogue: Retrospectus J.A. Mangan

Roberta J. Park is based at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.Patricia Vertinsky is based at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

With this collection, Park (emer., Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Vertinsky (Univ. of British Columbia) expand the definition of sport....the book is cohesive in its expanded take on sport....Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.—CHOICE, December 2011, S. K. Fields, Ohio State University

• 1. Prologue: Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft: Extending the Dialogue on Women, Sport and Physical Activities Roberta J. Park and Patricia Vertinsky 2. From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H’Doubler and Martha Hill Patricia Vertinsky 3. The Physical is Political: Women’s Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes, and the Public Sphere Jaime Schultz 4. From Alice Milliat to Marie-Therese Eyquem: Revisiting Women’s Sport in France, 1920s-1960s Thierry Terret 5. Eliza Maria Mosher. Pioneering Woman Physician and Advocate for Physical Education Alison M. Wrynn 6. Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women’s Christian Association of the United States, 1920s-1950s Martha H. Verbrugge 7. Leading the Way in Science, Medicine and Physical Training: Female Physicians in Academia, 1890-1930 Susan G. Zieff 8. Empowering Women Through Sport: Women’s Basketball in Brazil and the Significant Role of Maria Helena Cardoso Claudia M. Guedes 9. Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman David Chapman and Gigliola Gori 10. Women as Leaders: What Women Have Attained In and Through the Field of Physical Education Roberta J. Park 11. Epilogue: Retrospectus J.A. Mangan