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Trophy, Women's Football Foundation Hall of Fame, July 25, 2014

open access: yes, 2017
This white granite trophy was awarded to the Toledo Troopers at their induction into the Women's Football Foundation Hall of Fame banquet on Friday, July 25, 2014.
Women's Football Foundation
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The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
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Toledo Troopers induction at the Women's Football Hall of Fame Banquet framed poster, July 25, 2014

open access: yes, 2017
This framed, printed copy of a poster belongs to Gloria Jimenez, who played for the Toledo Troopers from 1972-1979. The background of the poster is comprised of photographs of the team.
Women's Football Foundation
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Supporting the Fans: Learning-disability, Football Fandom and Social Exclusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In Britain, within the contemporary drive of using sport to tackle the isolation of socially excluded groups, association football (football) fandom has been implicated in many policy documents as a possible site for learning-disabled people to become ...
SOUTHBY, KRIS
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Des femmes marginalisées et brocardées par les médias : le football féminin en France des années 1970, entre invisibilité et misogynie

open access: yesFootball(s)
French football in the 1970s saw the emergence of women’s football. It was authorised by the French Football Federation in 1970 and the first French championship was organised in 1974. Stade de Reims matches began to attract media interest.
Manon Suddards-Jalabert
doaj   +1 more source

Doing Gender on and off the Pitch: the World of Female Football Players [PDF]

open access: yes
The following paper looks at the experiences of female football (soccer) players at a College of Higher Education in the South of England. Association Football occupies a special place in English society where it has traditionally been linked to notions ...
John Harris
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Children's rights in football: Welfare and work

open access: yes, 2010
This paper examines issues of labour and play in children's football. It asks whether global capitalism and the growth of girls' and women's football might lead to greater sexual victimization among female ...
Brackenridge, CH
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

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