Play Up! Play Up! And Play the Game! Sport at the Late Victorian Girls' Public School
Play Up! Play Up! And Play the Game! Sport at the Late Victorian Girls' Public School
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DOI：
10.1086/385820
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发表时间：
1984
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1
通讯作者：
K. McCrone
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作者：
K. McCrone
尽管近年来维多利亚时代的学者热切地致力于体育和女性历史领域的研究，但令人惊讶的是，他们对这两个领域的研究却很少。女性历史学家实际上忽略了女性解放斗争的身体层面，而体育史学家则通过忽视幕后人员来反映体育传统的男性取向。正如 W. J. Baker 最近在《体育史杂志》中指出的那样，“英国女性体育史……在待完成的工作议程中占据重要位置。”关于女性体育史的有限材料往往是由体育教育者或业余爱好者（例如前运动员和记者）制作的，他们的方法只能被描述为叙事描述性的。值得注意的是，它缺乏一个允许探索女性体育与社会变革之间关系的广阔历史视角。如果存在的话，解释和分析通常仅限于对体育运动的常见和不加批判的观察，反映了社会对妇女的态度，并为她们提供了新的娱乐和体育锻炼的机会。此类研究不应受到诋毁，因为即使人们对女性参与体育运动的事实知之甚少，但它们的揭示无疑是发现之旅中的一个重要阶段。然而，如果要发展出真正有意义和全面的图景，就需要解释性的叙述，涉及权力和控制、动机、参与的本质、女性运动的模糊性和社会破坏性潜力、其解放和限制特征以及女权主义和女性运动之间的相互作用等主题。
Although in recent years Victorianists have eagerly cultivated the fields of sport and women's history, they have produced surprisingly little relating the two areas. Historians of women have virtually ignored the physical dimension of the struggle for female emancipation, while historians of sport have reflected sport's traditional male orientation by neglecting the distaff side. As W. J. Baker noted recently in the Journal of Sport History, “the history of British women in sports … stands high on the agenda of work to be done.” What limited material there is on women's sport history as such has tended to be produced by physical educators or amateurs like former players and journalists whose methodology can only be described as narrative-descriptive. A broad historical perspective permitting an exploration of the relationship between women's sport and social change is noticeable by its absence. Interpretation and analysis if they exist at all are usually limited to commonplace and uncritical observations about sport mirroring social attitudes to women and providing them with new opportunities for recreation and physical exercise. Such studies should not be denigrated, for when precious little has been known even of the facts of women's involvement in sport their revelation is certainly an important stage in the journey of discovery. However, if a truly meaningful and comprehensive picture is to be developed interpretative accounts are needed, which deal with such topics as power and control, motivation, the nature of participation, female sport's ambiguities and socially disruptive potential, its emancipating and restricting characteristics, and the interaction between feminism and female athleticism.