A Game for Rough Girls?: A History of Women's Football in Britain

by Jean M. Williams

Book Overview

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?
How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?

Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998 FIFA declared that "the future is feminine" and that football was the fastest growing sport for women globally.

The result of several years of original research, the book traces the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415263379
• ISBN13: 9780415263375
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"