Before the ‘Black Ferns’: Tracing the Beginnings of Women’s Rugby in New Zealand
Before the ‘Black Ferns’: Tracing the Beginnings of Women’s Rugby in New Zealand
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“黑蕨”之前：追溯新西兰女子橄榄球的起源
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2016
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J. Curtin
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J. Curtin
新西兰女子橄榄球联盟在过去十年里越来越受欢迎，在此之前的20年里，女子橄榄球在国际上占据主导地位，并采取了许多行动，以使女子橄榄球运动在国家和省级得到承认和支持。然而，正如这篇论文所揭示的那样，女性作为运动员参与这项运动，早在黑蕨队赢得第一次国际锦标赛之前100多年就开始了。通过对过去报纸上的数字化报纸所代表的女性认真打球的几次短暂的“插曲”的审查，很明显，女性进入高度男性化的橄榄球团队运动挑战了主导情感，但并没有完全被抵制。这里调查的“事件”表明，性别角色可能比传统上由“维多利亚时代”和“新女性”这两个类别所援引的性别角色更加漏洞百出，殖民地周围的Pākehā和MāOri女性的行动引发了争议，尽管是断断续续的。
Abstract Women’s rugby union in New Zealand has increased in popularity over the past decade, preceded by two decades of dominance at the international level and much activism to have the women’s game recognized and supported, nationally and provincially. However, as this paper reveals, women’s engagement with the game, as players, began more than 100 years before the Black Ferns won their first international tournament. Through an examination of several fleeting ‘episodes’ of women’s attempts to play in earnest, as represented in digitized newspapers from Papers Past, it becomes apparent that women’s foray into the hyper-masculinized team sport of rugby challenged dominant sensibilities but was not wholly resisted. The ‘events’ investigated here suggest that gender roles may have been more porous than traditionally invoked by the categories of ‘Victorian’ and ‘New Woman’, contested, albeit intermittently, by the actions of Pākehā and Māori women around the colony.