Carol A. Osborne is a Lecturer at the School of Sport, University of Cumbria, UK.Fiona Skillen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Football Institute, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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• 1. Introduction. The State of Play: Women in British Sport History Carol A. Osborne and Fiona Skillen 2. A Window of Opportunity? Preliminary Thoughts on Women’s Sport in Post-war Britain Joyce Kay 3. From Mixed-Sex Sport to Sport for Girls: The Feminization of Figure Skating Mary Louise Adams 4. Frisky and Bitchy: Unlikely British Olympic Heroes? Jean Williams 5. Lilli Henoch and Martha Jacob – Two Jewish Athletes in Germany Before and After 1933 Berno Bahro 6. ‘Ladies First’?: Establishing a Place for Women Golfers in British Golf Clubs, 1867–1914 Jane George 7. Against Hegemonic Currents: Women’s Rowing into the First Half of the Twentieth Century Amanda N. Schweinbenz

Carol A. Osborne is a Lecturer at the School of Sport, University of Cumbria, UK.Fiona Skillen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Football Institute, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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• 1. Introduction. The State of Play: Women in British Sport History Carol A. Osborne and Fiona Skillen 2. A Window of Opportunity? Preliminary Thoughts on Women’s Sport in Post-war Britain Joyce Kay 3. From Mixed-Sex Sport to Sport for Girls: The Feminization of Figure Skating Mary Louise Adams 4. Frisky and Bitchy: Unlikely British Olympic Heroes? Jean Williams 5. Lilli Henoch and Martha Jacob – Two Jewish Athletes in Germany Before and After 1933 Berno Bahro 6. ‘Ladies First’?: Establishing a Place for Women Golfers in British Golf Clubs, 1867–1914 Jane George 7. Against Hegemonic Currents: Women’s Rowing into the First Half of the Twentieth Century Amanda N. Schweinbenz

Carol A. Osborne is a Lecturer at the School of Sport, University of Cumbria, UK.Fiona Skillen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Football Institute, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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• 1. Introduction. The State of Play: Women in British Sport History Carol A. Osborne and Fiona Skillen 2. A Window of Opportunity? Preliminary Thoughts on Women’s Sport in Post-war Britain Joyce Kay 3. From Mixed-Sex Sport to Sport for Girls: The Feminization of Figure Skating Mary Louise Adams 4. Frisky and Bitchy: Unlikely British Olympic Heroes? Jean Williams 5. Lilli Henoch and Martha Jacob – Two Jewish Athletes in Germany Before and After 1933 Berno Bahro 6. ‘Ladies First’?: Establishing a Place for Women Golfers in British Golf Clubs, 1867–1914 Jane George 7. Against Hegemonic Currents: Women’s Rowing into the First Half of the Twentieth Century Amanda N. Schweinbenz