Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport: A Man’s World?

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Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival material to uncover histories of women’s work in sport, from swimming teachers in nineteenth-century England to national sports administrators in twentieth-century Côte d’Ivoire, and many places in between. Their work has been varied, holding roles as teachers, wives, and secretaries in sporting contexts around the world, often with diplomatic functions—including at the 1968 and 1992 Olympic Games. Finally, this collection shows how gender initiatives have developed in sporting institutions in Europe and international sport federations today. With a foreword by Grégory Quin and afterword by Anaïs Bohuon, this is a pioneering study into gender and women’s work in global sport. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Introduction (Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas)....Pages 1-15 Women in Sport Organizations: Historiographical and Epistemological Challenges (Florys Castan-Vicente, Claire Nicolas, Georgia Cervin)....Pages 17-48 Late Nineteenth-Century Swimming Teachers in England (Dave Day)....Pages 49-74 Gender Performances of Sports Organization Leaders: A Comparative (Re)Examination of Alice Milliat’s, Suzanne Lenglen’s and Marie-Thérèse Eyquem’s Trajectories (Florys Castan-Vicente)....Pages 75-99 Ghost Administrators: Re-centring Marisa Bonacossa, Lydia Zanchi and Suzanne Otth Within International Sport Organizations (Quentin Tonnerre, Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti)....Pages 101-125 Unsung Women Federal Leaders Within the Labour Sport Federation in France, from Its Establishment to the Second Post-war Period (Yannick Deschamps)....Pages 127-159 A Case Study Comparison of the Presence of Women in Two Olympic Organizing Committees: Mexico 1968 and Barcelona 1992 (Alberto Aragón-Pérez, Axel Elías Jiménez)....Pages 161-186 Having a Place of One’s Own: Doing a Feminist Ethnography of the Swiss Shooting Museum’s Archives (Solène Froidevaux)....Pages 187-216 From Handball Courts to Ministries: The Cousins of Côte d’Ivoire (Claire Nicolas)....Pages 217-244 From the Carpet to the Executive Committee: Women Leading Women’s Gymnastics (Georgia Cervin, Grégory Quin, Axel Elías Jiménez)....Pages 245-271 The Promotion of Women in Sport Within the Council of Europe and the European Sport Conference from the 1960s to the 1990s (Stefan Scholl)....Pages 273-297 Women Within International Sports Federations: Contemporary Challenges (Lucie Schoch, Joséphine Clausen)....Pages 299-326 Afterword: Doing History of Gender and Sport—A Feminist Perspective as a French Sports Historian and Practitioner (Anaïs Bohuon)....Pages 327-338 Back Matter ....Pages 339-347