"The Girls of Central High": How a Progressive Era Book Series for Girls Furthered the Cause of Female Interschool Sport

Autor/in	Singleton, Ellen
Titel	"The Girls of Central High": How a Progressive Era Book Series for Girls Furthered the Cause of Female Interschool Sport
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 37 (2006) 3, S.211-227 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-006-9008-2
Schlagwörter	Books; Fiction; Childrens Literature; Adolescent Literature; Females; Physical Education; Womens Athletics; High Schools; Gender Issues; Extramural Athletics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Fiktion; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Weibliches Geschlecht; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Frauensport; High school; Oberschule; Geschlechterfrage; Außerunterrichtlicher Schulsport
Abstract	An increased awareness of the gendered traditions of physical activity portrayed in vintage book series for girls and boys may provide teachers with a deeper understanding of (still) current ideological assumptions affecting female and male participation in sport and recreational activity. This article explores a unique girls' fiction series about competitive high school sport for females during the Progressive Era. These stories are significant in that they enabled young women to explore conventional and resistant viewpoints about competitive sport, usually a strictly masculine preserve. While these struggles occurred nearly one hundred years ago, echoes of these issues reverberate today in contemporary high school physical education and competitive sport programs. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10