Play On! The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football
Play On! The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football
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继续玩！
DOI：
10.1080/09523367.2017.1413632
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2018
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玩!追溯女子澳式足球的变化面貌，从1880年的起源，到1915年被公认为正式组织的比赛结构的开始，再到20世纪的许多曲折，直到澳大利亚足球联盟支持的全国锦标赛的开始。这项工作是一个可信的混合不同的主要来源，丰富的报纸报道和官方档案与口述历史，这是罗布·赫斯和布鲁内特·伦基奇利用了很大的效果。作者评论了口述历史作为体育史研究的一种新方法的转变，并采取了一种现代的方法，受Lenkic作为记者的经历的影响。在研究这本书的过程中，她进行了26次采访，并收集了更多使用社交媒体平台的现代游戏的轶事。作者还使用了其他研究人员进行的访谈，这是体育史学口述历史未来的一个重要方面，也是研究人员进行进一步研究的一个效仿点。这本书结合了赫斯已经发表的关于女子澳大利亚规则足球的研究，以及相关次要来源的广泛参考书目，这些参考书目成功地纳入并扩展了文本。作为一个全面的历史，这卷提供了一个引人入胜的叙述妇女参与国家体育的历史的读者。由于受到一位作者的新闻背景的影响，本书的写作风格很流畅，虽然可以通过持续使用副标题来提高可读性，副标题在后面的章节中很常见，但在前224页中却明显缺乏。这导致了这样的情况：一段总结了1989年联赛的决赛，接着一段关于加入男子俱乐部的好处，这段话突然转变成关于女球员性向的讨论（178）。虽然每一点都是有效的，但读者可以从增加的路标中受益。尽管这本书触及了一些有争议的话题，但其叙事结构阻碍了更深入的分析。例如，西澳大利亚联赛和分别成立于1986年和1981年的维多利亚女子足球联赛之间的一个重要区别是，土著球员参加了西澳大利亚比赛的第一个全年，并继续成为该州足球发展的重要组成部分。(172)
Play On! traces the changing face of women’s Australian Rules football from origins in 1880, through what has been recognized as the start of a more formally organized playing structure in 1915, and the many twists and turns of the twentieth century to the inception of an Australian Football League supported national tournament. This work is a creditable blend of different primary sources, enriching newspaper reports and official archives with oral histories, which Rob Hess and Brunette Lenkic use to great effect. The authors comment upon the shift towards oral history as a new methodology in sports history, and take a modern approach, influenced by Lenkic’s experience as a journalist. In researching this book, she conducted 26 interviews and gathered anecdotes of more modern games using a social media platform. The authors also use interviews conducted by other researchers, an important aspect for the future of oral histories in sports historiography and a point to emulate for researchers undertaking further study. The book incorporates Hess’s already published research on women’s Australian Rules football, alongside an extensive bibliography of relevant secondary sources which are successfully incorporated and expanded upon in the text. As a comprehensive history, this volume provides the uninitiated reader with an engaging narrative on the history of women’s involvement in the national sport. Influenced again by the journalistic background of one author, the style of writing is easy flowing, although accessibility could have been improved through the consistent use of sub-headings, which feature in the later chapters but are remarkably lacking in the first 224 pages. This leads to situations where a paragraph summarizing the final of the 1989 league, leads on to a paragraph on the benefits of being affiliated with a men’s club which takes quite a sudden shift into a discussion on the sexuality of female players (178). Although each point is valid, the reader could benefit from increased sign-posting. Even though the book touches upon some contentious topics, the narrative structure prevents deeper analysis. For example, an important point of difference between [… the Western Australian league, and the Victorian Women’s Football League, founded in 1986 and 1981 respectively] was that indigenous players participated in the first full year of the [Western Australian] competition and have continued to be an important part of the game’s development in the state.(172)