This book seeks to broaden our understandings about the backgrounds, motivations and achievements of dedicated women who have historically contributed to physical education, dance and sport in ways that go far beyond being teachers, athletes and coaches. It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

This volume seeks to broaden our understandings about the backgrounds, motivations and achievements of dedicated women who have historically contributed to physical education, dance and sport in ways that go far beyond being teachers, athletes and coaches.

With this collection, Park (emer., Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Vertinsky (Univ. of British Columbia) expand the definition of sport....the book is cohesive in its expanded take on sport....Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.-CHOICE, December 2011, S. K. Fields, Ohio State University