The Girl And The Game

Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442634121

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The Girl and the Game by M. Ann Hall Pdf

In this new edition of her groundbreaking social history The Girl and the Game (2002), M. Ann Hall updates her lively narrative of how women resisted masculine hegemony in Canadian sport and, in turn, how their efforts were opposed and sometimes supported by men. The second edition of The Girl and the Game begins with an important new chapter on aboriginal women and their interaction with early sport and ends with a new chapter on how trends and issues facing contemporary women in Canadian sport have their origins in the past. Other new sections focus on gender and the residential school system, the promotion of women's track and field, the 1928 summer Olympics and the Matchless Six, and aboriginal sportswomen. As in the first edition, Hall introduces her audience to more obscure Canadian female athletes rather than focusing her discussion on household names. The introduction to the new edition has been updated to reflect the content changes in the narrative. To increase appeal to the course market, chapter titles are more descriptive, the text has been revised to include more subsections, and the 52 black and white images are placed throughout the text.

Author : Margaret Ann Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 155111268X

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The Girl and the Game by Margaret Ann Hall Pdf

The Girl and the Game traces the history of women's organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to today's tendency to market women athletes, especially Olympians, as both athletic and sexual. When women actively participate in the symbols, practices, and institutions of sport, what they do is often not considered "real" sport, nor in some cases are they viewed as "real" women. What follows from this notion of sport as a site of cultural struggle is that the history of women in sport is also a history of cultural resistance.

Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442634145

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The Girl and the Game by M. Ann Hall Pdf

In the second edition of this groundbreaking social history, M. Ann Hall begins with an important new chapter on Aboriginal women and early sport and ends with a new chapter tying today's trends and issues in Canadian women's sport to their origins in the past. Students will appreciate the more descriptive chapter titles and the restructuring of the book into easily digestible sections. Fifty-two images complement Hall's lively narrative.

Author : Shizuru Seino
Publisher : TokyoPop
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1591829879

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Girl Got Game Volume 8 by Shizuru Seino Pdf

So she can play on a major boy's basketball team, Kyo Aizawa's father makes her pose as a boy.

Author : Ruth Ware
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982143411

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The Lying Game by Ruth Ware Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Turn of the Key comes Ruth Ware’s The Lying Game. Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives a text from an old friend. Why would Kate summon her and their two friends to the seaside town where they briefly attended the Salten House boarding school together seventeen years ago? The four friends had quickly bonded over the Lying Game—a risky contest that involved tricking fellow boarders and faculty with their lies. Now reunited, Isa, Kate, Thea, and Fatima discover that their past lies had far-reaching effects and criminal implications that threaten them all. In order to protect their reputations, and their friendship, they must uncover the truth about what really happened all those years ago. Atmospheric and twisty, with just the right amount of chill, The Lying Game will have readers at the edge of their seats, not knowing who can be trusted in this tangled web of lies.

Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto PressHigher education
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1442601027

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Girl and the Game by M. Ann Hall Pdf

The Girl and the Game goes well beyond the customary chronicling of women in sport. Ann Hall examines the big picture: Canadian women's sport history in its rightful context as a cultural struggle. These are the stories of ordinary women and extraordinary athletes who challenged the status quo. Meticulously researched and richly crafted. Sports writer, Mary Jollimore.

Author : Di Henry,Libby Harkness
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1528988590

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Game Girl by Di Henry,Libby Harkness Pdf

Sydney-born Di Henry is recognised in her native country and internationally as an events manager without peer. She is the recipient of the Australian Order of Merit (OAM), the Olympic Order and her industry's Lifetime Achievement Award. Marking almost thirty years of professional achievement, these distinctions pale in comparison to the blue-chip honorific of being a seriously fascinating human being. Henry has managed - and management might be her middle name - to finesse several careers, two marriages and many rich and varied relationships into one hurly-burly cavalcade of a life, re-told in the pages of this no-holds-barred memoir. After a childhood that mixed trauma and tenderness in equal parts, and having taken a degree, Henry worked as an art director in Australia's re-awakened film and television sector in the early 1980s. Arts, event and sports management followed later in the decade. By the 1990s and 2000s, having launched her bespoke company, Maxxam Events, this 'game girl' oversaw 18 Olympic Torch and Commonwealth Games Baton Relays, also games ceremonies, arena shows, cultural events and world cup spectaculars. She has produced over 1,000 large-scale public events in over 100 countries. Whether driving a flock of 1,500 sheep down the main street of Sydney, or sending fiery torches across the Himalayas and under the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, Henry has proven a match for every seemingly impossible abracadabra in the events trade, including wrangling Boris Johnson, whose Olympic and events program manager she was at the time of the London Olympics! This Is Your Life meets Celebrity Squares in Henry's account of her troubled but triumphant journey from lousy beginnings to living legend, beating booze and heartbreak along the way.

Author : Tessa Dare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062672131

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The Governess Game by Tessa Dare Pdf

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller He’s been a bad, bad rake—and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson The accidental governess After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don’t need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried—and failed—to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart . . . without risking her own. The infamous rake Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education—in pleasure. That should prove he can’t be tamed. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. She refuses to see him as a lost cause. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling . . . and he’s in danger of falling, hard.

Author : Kyra D. Gaunt
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780814731208

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The Games Black Girls Play by Kyra D. Gaunt Pdf

Illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learn--how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Gaunt argues that black girls' games are connected to long traditions of African and African American musicmaking, and that they teach vital musical and social lessons that are carried into adulthood. - from publisher information.

Author : Victoria Shelley
Publisher : FilamentPublishing Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781905493579

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It's a Girl's Game by Victoria Shelley Pdf

Three twenty-something females are going about their day-to-day lives when one of them enters a competition in a men's magazine, which changes not only her own life but the lives of her two best friends. It's a Girl's Game is a must read for all those interested in pulling footballers!

Author : Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 9780152045609

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Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde Pdf

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Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501143861

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Gerald's Game by Stephen King Pdf

Now a Netflix movie directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush) and starring Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood. Master storyteller Stephen King presents this classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller. When a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death, the nightmare has only begun… “And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone.” Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald’s kinky sex games—something that she’s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a “romantic getaway” at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts—and Gerald crosses a line with his wife—the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison—and comes face-to-face with her deepest, darkest fears and memories. Her only company is that of the various voices filling her mind…as well as the shadows of nightfall that may conceal an imagined or very real threat right there with her…

Author : Don Morrow,Kevin B. Wamsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199021570

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Sport in Canada by Don Morrow,Kevin B. Wamsley Pdf

Comprehensive and issue-focused, Sport in Canada: A History is an engaging and thought-provoking investigation into the role of sports, games, and pastimes in Canadian life. This sweeping history emphasizes the sociocultural factors that inform current issues in sport, such as violence,injury, gender, and multiculturalism. Now in its fourth edition, this revitalized text guides students toward a deeper appreciation of the role sport has played in shaping our national identity.

Author : Phil Foglio,Kaja Foglio
Publisher : Studio Foglio
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1890856509

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Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg clank by Phil Foglio,Kaja Foglio Pdf

Meet Zesty Tastee, flamboyant gay playboy and heir to the Tastee Corporationfortune. That's what the world knows of him, but Zesty is also Magpie, thecorporate saboteur who fights against his father's corrupt business practices.Zesty's evil tycoon dad is out to destroy an entire rainforest, and he's joinedup with a mysterious sect of ninjas to help keep 'Magpie' from interfering.Prince Ander is the sect agent on the case and Zesty has love at first sight forthis dreamy ninja master. Zesty can't understand why anyone as noble as Princewould ever work with his father. His mission is to find out the secret of therain forest, and win Prince's heart in the process!

Author : Michael Hyde,Gabrielle Gloury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1925804887

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Girls Change the Game by Michael Hyde,Gabrielle Gloury Pdf