PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
- A collection of facsimile reprints of early books and pamphlets on women’s physical education and related subjects of health and sports published in the nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Britain.
- The collection totals eighteen items, including: exercise books; school textbooks; surveys and research on the health of female students, as well as handbooks of modern sports such as tennis, golf, hockey, cycling etc.
- Includes many illustrations and pictures.
- Arranged by category in five volumes.
- Including hard-to-obtain items, the collection offers a valuable source of information, not only on the history of female education, but also on gender studies, sexuality, and the body.
Extracts from the Preface by Setsuko Kagawa
--- In the past few decades historians have developed an interest in the human body, health and physical education, from the viewpoints of social class, gender and national efficiency. As to the history of women’s physical education and sport in nineteenth- to twentieth-century Britain, we already have pioneering works by feminist researchers like Sheila Fletcher, Kathleen McCrone, and Jeniffer Hargreaves. Quite recently Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska explored the emergence of modern male and female bodies and physical culture, within the wide context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship from 1880s until 1939. However, we have much difficulty in investigating the actual state of early physical exercise and organized physical education for women in this period because of the lack and disparity of historical documents. Research will be much helped by having scattered contemporary literature brought together in these newly reprinted volumes.
Table of Contents:
Vol. 1 (c.500 pp): Changing Attitude toward the Physical Health of Women
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Preface by Setsuko Kagawa
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Walker, Donald
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Exercises for Ladies; calculated to Preserve and Improve Beauty and to Prevent and Correct Personal Defects, inseparable from Constrained or Careless Habits: Founded on Physiological Principles
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London: Thomas Hurst, 1836, 228pp
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Hamilton, Gustave
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The Elements of Gymnastics for Boys and of the Calisthenics for Young Ladies
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London: A. K. Newman, 1840 (new ed.), 72pp
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Wahl, Anne de
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Practical Hints of the Moral, Mental and Physical Training of Girls at School
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London: John W. Parker, 1847, 195pp
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Vol. 2 (c.415pp): Healthful Exercises for Women
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Madam Brenner Gymnastics for Ladies: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Calisthenics and Gymnastic Exercises
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London: Published by Mme Brenner at her Gymnasium, 1870, 82pp
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Alexander, A.
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Healthful Exercises for Girls
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London: George Philip & Son, 1896 (5th ed. Revised), 177pp
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Ely, C. M.
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Physical Education: Ling's Swedish Drill adapted for Use of Schools
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London: Miss C.M. Ely, 1896, 54pp
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James, Alice, R.
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Girls' Physical Training: being a Series of Healthy and Artistic Movements to Music
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London: Macmillan, 1898, 102pp
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Vol. 3 (c.580pp): Physical Training from the Medical Point of View
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Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D.
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Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls
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New York, George P. Putnam, 1852, 180pp (published in London, Sampson Low, 1859)
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Galbraith, Anna M., M.D.
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Personal Hygiene and Physical Training for Women
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Philadelphia & London: W. Saunders, 1916, 393pp
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Vol. 4 (c.430pp): Health Statistics of Women Students and the Popularity of Cycling among Women
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Howes, Annie Health Statistics of Women College Graduates: Report of a Special Committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
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Boston: Wright & Potter, 1885, 76pp
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Sidgwick, Eleanor
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Health Statistics of Women Students of Cambridge and Oxford and Their Sisters
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Cambridge: University Press, 1890, 100pp
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Erskine, Fanny. J.
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Bicycling for Ladies
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London: ILIffe & Sons, 1896, 85pp
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Davidson, Lillias Campbell
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Handbook for Lady Cyclists
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London: Hay Nisbet Co., 1896, 125pp
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Dove, Jane Frances
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Cultivation of the Body, Section III of Work and Play in Girls' Schools
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London: Longman's Green & Co., 1901, 30pp
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Vol. 5 (c.555pp): Modern Sports and Games for Women
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Thompson, Edith Hockey as a Game for Women
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London: Edward Arnold, 1905 (2nd ed.), 87pp
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Chamber, Dorothea Katherine Lambert
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Lawn Tennis for Ladies
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London: Methuen & Co., 1910, 135pp
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Leitch, Cecil
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Golf for Girls
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London: George Newnes, 1911 (3rd revised ed.), 92pp
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Thomas, C. E. (ed.)
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Athletic Training for Girls
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London, Pitman & Sons, 1912, 230pp
