Women's Sports: A Global History

1 Unit · Undergraduate

From the multiracial maidens who ran eight-mile races across eighteenth-century London to Brazil?s outlawed futboleras, female athletes across time and space have variously challenged and reinforced ideas about gender, race, class, sexuality, and empire. We?ll tell a story of progress and backlash, empowerment and exploitation, liberation and control. Runners, take your marks; we?re off to the races.