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When Women’s Football Came to the Island
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2021 This article looks at the early development of women’s football in Ireland, examining the cultural impact of the first women’s matches, and how this early heritage has laid foundations for future developments. Women took to playing association football not long after it was first established as a male bastion during the latter half of the nineteenth ...
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A breakthrough : women's football in Sweden
, 2003 This essay focuses on the development of women's football in Sweden between 1965 and 1980. The growth of modern women's football in Sweden was dependent on factors that were essentially extended to the football movement.
Olofsson, Eva,, Hjelm, Jonny,
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Women's Career Pathways to Nonprofit Leadership Positions
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines women's leadership career pathways in nonprofit sport organizations. Drawing on a narrative approach and reflexive thematic analysis of 22 semi‐structured interviews with Finnish women leaders, we identify four career types—Progressive Growth Career, Mission Enthusiast, Externally Catalyzed Career, and Chance‐Driven Growth ...
Marjukka Mikkonen +1 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The planning, design and management of urban green and blue spaces necessitate trade‐offs between these spaces' many benefits and their drawbacks, but knowledge of perceived problems and unpleasant experiences in urban green and blue spaces remains limited.
Alyssa L. Solvie +5 more
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Game Changers: Leadership Lessons From Popular Sport Icons
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 25-31, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores leadership lessons that can be drawn from popular sport icons. These lessons reveal how athletes leverage their status to drive social change or how they inspire others through performance‐based practices that align with effective modern‐day leadership skills.
S. Lynn Shollen, Maylon Hanold
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The culture of women's fandom in Iranian football; motivations, styles, and challenges [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i ĪrānWomen's football fandom is an overlooked topic in social science researches as women are typically ignored in sociological studies on football. The general public perception is that women are not genuine or authentic supporters of this sport, which is ...
zahra sabbaghi, Mohammad saeed Zokaei
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Women's football: Player characteristics and demands of the game
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2014 The number of scientific investigations on women's football specific to the topics of player characteristics and demands of the game has considerably increased in recent years due to the increased popularity of the women's game worldwide, although they ...
Vanessa Martínez-Lagunas +2 more
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Football Observers' Perceptions of Women's Football in Aceh
Jurnal Ilmiah TeunulehThe presence of women's football in Aceh is against the MPU because according to them women's football is not in accordance with Islamic law. With this, this study aims to determine how the perceptions of football observers in Aceh on the formation of women's football teams in Aceh.
Tuti Sarwita +8 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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