Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theories of sports: the neglect of gender -- Sports feminism: the importance of gender -- Nature and culture: introducing Victorian and Edwardian sports for women -- The legitimation of female exercise: the case of physical education -- Recreative and competitive sports: expansion and containment -- The inter-war years: limitations and possibilities -- Femininity or 'musculinity'?: changing images of female sports -- Gender relations of power: institutionalized discrimination -- Olympic women: a struggle for recognition -- Sports for all women: problems and progress -- Into the twenty-first century: diversity and empowerment -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.