Gigliola Gori, Sport and Gender Matters in Western Countries: Old Borders and New Challenges

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Webmaster

Gigliola Gori, ed. Sport and Gender Matters in Western Countries: Old Borders and New Challenges. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2008. Sport historians present their evidence of, and arguments about the past in different ways, but this collection of diverse and interesting approaches to the role of gender in sport history is proof of the discipline’s …

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Evelyn Mertin, Sowjetisch-deutsche Sportbeziehungen im “Kalten Krieg”

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Webmaster

Evelyn Mertin. Sowjetisch-deutsche Sportbeziehungen im “Kalten Krieg”. St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2009. (The Soviet-German sport relations in the “Cold War”) The bipolar power structures of the ‘Cold War’ suggest that there were clear concepts of friends and enemies both in East and West. These political patterns were transferred to sporting comparisons of the states involved. …

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