Overview: Highlights the progress made by female athletes throughout the history of the Olympics.Analyzes a variety of historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural issues that women in the Olympic games This book examines women‘s participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, .Female Olympians. reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such
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