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Book Women in Rugby

Download or read book Women in Rugby written by Helene Joncheray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to introduce key themes in the study of women’s rugby from multi-disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, gender studies, sport development and sport science. Featuring contributions from leading researchers and former international players from across Canada, England, France, New Zealand and the USA, the book opens with a global history of women’s rugby, locating the game in the wider context of the development of women’s sport and exploring important social issues such as race, gender and violence. The book then looks at training and performance analysis at pitch level, helping the reader get a sense of the game from the ground up, before focusing on women’s rugby through the eyes of others (such as rugby coaches), women’s experiences of rugby’s culture and promotional culture. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in women’s sport, rugby, sport and social issues, sport development, or sport history.

Book Women s Rugby

Download or read book Women s Rugby written by Scott Rawdon and published by Wish Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers naïve to women's rugby will discover the essence of the game, new players (especially nervous rookies) may discover a blueprint for what to expect and how to succeed, experienced players may discover new clues to mastering this game, and older players who want to morph into coaching, may discover a manual for establishing a successful program. Finally, all readers will discover that in women's collegiate rugby, teamwork matters more than size, mastering the fundamentals and executing simple, but flawless technique wins games, open communication between players and coaches breeds pride in a program, and attention to conditioning, flexibility, and the hazards of the game reduces the risk and occurrence of injury.

Book Girls Play Rugby

Download or read book Girls Play Rugby written by Emma Jones and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rugby is an intense, physical sport that men and women alike enjoy playing. As girls learn the history and rules of rugby in this volume, they begin to feel more empowered to get outside and try the sport for themselves. Clear text and fun fact boxes present information about the sport, including ways for girls to continue playing it through adulthood. They also discover the stories of successful female rugby players and teams. Readers learn more about the sport through a helpful graphic organizer and full-color photographs of girls and women playing rugby. These photographs show the intensity of a rugby match in amazing detail.

Book Black and Blue and Blue and Gold

Download or read book Black and Blue and Blue and Gold written by Robert E. Osmon and published by Powerful Publisher, LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black and Blue and Blue and Gold is the story of women's rugby at the U.S. Naval Academy. It tells an inspirational story and captures the unique spirit that makes rugby unquestionably the best team sport in the world. It vividly captures the spirit of women's collegiate rugby. A wonderful read for anyone who loves rugby or a rugby player.

Book World in their Hands

Download or read book World in their Hands written by Martyn Thomas and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Rugby Book of the Year 2023 World in their Hands recounts the remarkable events that led to a group of friends from south-west London staging the inaugural Women's Rugby World Cup in 1991. The tournament was held just 13 years after teams from University College London and King's contested a match that catalysed the growth of the women's game in the UK, and the organisers overcame myriad obstacles before, during and after the World Cup. Those challenges, which included ingrained misogyny, motherhood, a recession, the Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, provide a fitting framing device for a book that celebrates female achievement in the face of adversity. Although ostensibly a story about women's rugby, this is a tale that has rare crossover appeal. It is not only the account of a group of inspirational women who took on the institutional misogyny that existed in rugby clubs across the globe to put on a first ever Women's Rugby World Cup. It is also the compelling and relatable tale of how those women, their peers and others in the generations before them, reshaped the idea of what it means to be a woman, finding acceptance and friendship on boggy rugby pitches. At the time, with the men's game tying itself up in knots about professionalism and apartheid, these women were a breath of fresh air. Three decades on, their achievements deserve to be highlighted to a wider audience.

Book Sixth Annual Invitational

Download or read book Sixth Annual Invitational written by St. Louis Women's Rugby Club and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mud  Maul  Mascara

Download or read book Mud Maul Mascara written by Catherine Spencer and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020 'This pioneering memoir . . . engagingly balances the highs of captaincy and grand slams with striking emotional honesty as to her regrets' Guardian Books of the Year 'Her struggle is that of women’s rugby and it is told here with great honesty' Sunday Times Books of the Year Catherine Spencer was the captain of the England women’s rugby team for three years. She scored eighteen tries for England, won six of the eight Six Nations competitions she took part in, and captained her team to three championship titles, a European cup, two Nations Cup tournament victories and the World Cup final held on home soil in 2010, which thrust women’s rugby into the limelight. All of this while holding down a full time job, because the women’s team, unlike the men’s, did not get paid for their sport. Mud, Maul, Mascara is an effort to reconcile alleged opposites, to show the woman behind the international sporting success. Painfully honest about the mental struggles Catherine faced during, and after, her career as an elite athlete, it is also warm, funny and inspirational – a book for anyone who has ever had a dream, or self-doubt, or a yearning for a really good, mud-proof mascara.

Book Making the Rugby World

Download or read book Making the Rugby World written by Timothy J.L. Chandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the British Empire (France, Italy, Japan and the USA). The role of women in rugby is examined and the subsequent development of women's rugby as one of the fastest growing sports for women in Europe, North America and Australasia in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section analyses the impact of commercialisation, professionalisation and media on rugby and the impact on the historic rugby culture linked to an ethos of amateurism.

Book Women s Rugby in Germany  Stereotypes and Values

Download or read book Women s Rugby in Germany Stereotypes and Values written by Katharina Guhr and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Health - Sport - Sport Sociology, grade: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Englisches Seminar), course: Kulturwissenschaften, language: English, abstract: Im Zuge dieser Arbeit soll Frauenrugby in Deutschland im kulturwissenschaftlichen Sinne näher beleuchtet werden. Hierbei wird sich besonders auf die Geschlechterrollen und die Rugbykultur und Gemeinschaft bezogen und diese in Vergleich zu Großbritannien gesetzt. Weil die Sportart mit vielen Vorurteilen belegt ist, und Rugby Stereotyp "maskulin" konnotiert ist, ist es notwendig, sich den Rollenbildern in dieser Sportart zu widmen. Zusätzlich wird der Vergleich mit Großbritannien erstellt, um verschiedene Problematisierungen mit einem Land zu kontrastieren, in dem Rugby ein Nationalsport ist. In dieser Masterarbeit werden daher am Beispiel von Frauenrugby in Deutschland tradierte Frauenbilder im Sport hinsichtlich Stereotypen und Vorurteilen untersucht und mit dem Vorreiter im Rugby Großbritannien verglichen. Ausgehend hiervon sollen die internationalen Werte und Chancen, die der Sport Frauen bietet, evaluiert werden. Die Grundlage bilden Experteninterviews. Anhand dessen werden die drei häufigsten Stereotype, denen die Spieler*innen begegneten, herausgearbeitet. Diese beziehen sich zum einen auf Körperbilder und Homosexualität. Zum Anderen auf den direkten Vergleich mit dem Spiel der Männer und die damit einhergehende Annahme der verminderten Qualität des Frauensports. Diese wird durch mangelnde Finanzierung und daraus folgende geringe mediale Präsenz verstärkt. Darauf aufbauend wird die Rugbykultur in Deutschland und international beleuchtet und hinterfragt, inwieweit Frauen darin inkludiert sind und wie dies das Gruppengefühl des Sportes formt. Zum Schluss wird die sogenannte "dritte Halbzeit" untersucht und in diesem Zuge die Werte und der Zusammenhalt thematisiert.

Book Scrum Queens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ali Donnelly
  • Publisher : Pitch Publishing
  • Release : 2023-03
  • ISBN : 9781801502290
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Scrum Queens written by Ali Donnelly and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrum Queens: The Story of Women's Rugby, from 1880 to the present day charts the fascinating journey of women's rugby, from widespread social disapproval to the modern era of Olympic recognition and professionalism. Along the way, the book takes in all the major moments in the history of the women's game, from groundbreaking games during the war, to the first World Cup in 1991 and a momentous first appearance for women's rugby at the 2016 Olympics. There are stories of the pioneers who fought to get the game played in its earliest days, like New Zealand's Nita Webbe and France's Henry Fléchon, while the more modern-day drivers of the game, like England's Carol Isherwood, also feature. Scrum Queens celebrates the success and heroics of the sport's top players and teams, with New Zealand's dominance of the game at every level alongside their long-time rivalry with England explored, along with the more recent successes of teams such as Ireland and Fiji, and the rise of the sevens game and its impact on women's rugby.

Book Making the Rugby World

Download or read book Making the Rugby World written by Timothy J.L. Chandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the British Empire (France, Italy, Japan and the USA). The role of women in rugby is examined and the subsequent development of women's rugby as one of the fastest growing sports for women in Europe, North America and Australasia in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section analyses the impact of commercialisation, professionalisation and media on rugby and the impact on the historic rugby culture linked to an ethos of amateurism.

Book Tackling Stereotype

Download or read book Tackling Stereotype written by Charlotte Branchu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical rethinking of assumptions that have informed our understanding of women’s engagement in contact sport, based on an in-depth ethnography with an English rugby team. Looking at the day-to-day concerns of women who play rugby, this work provides a refreshing perspective on different ways of doing femininities in postfeminist times. Women’s rugby is one of the world’s fastest growing sports, yet it is also a physical game that is traditionally the preserve of men. Tackling Stereotypes reveals the cultural and symbolic stigma that ‘sticks’ to women’s rugby players and the tactics they use to carve out space for themselves and fight for legitimacy. It also argues that players engage in pragmatic politics, informed by their participation, that aims to enact realistic change. Branchu develops a situational sociology that furthers debates in the understanding of gender, belonging, becoming, embodiment, resistance politics, and the sociological study of sport.

Book The Red Roses

Download or read book The Red Roses written by Jessica Hayden and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2019, England's Red Roses became the first fully professional women's rugby team in the world – their abiding mission being to win back the Rugby World Cup. After their narrow defeat against New Zealand in 2017, the formidable squad developed a hugely successful game plan that earned them the longest winning streak in rugby union history. Acclaimed sports journalist Jessica Hayden, who has had unprecedented access to the Red Roses during the writing of this book, goes behind the scenes to follow their challenges, heartbreaks and triumphs. Featuring interviews with all the major players, including Marlie Packer, Jess Breach, former captain Emily Scarratt and many more, this is a truly inspirational story. The Red Roses will host the Rugby World Cup in 2025. The stakes have never been higher for one of the most dedicated teams in the history of rugby.

Book Hit Hard  Stay Together

Download or read book Hit Hard Stay Together written by Leah D. Sykes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sports around the World  4 volumes

Download or read book Sports around the World 4 volumes written by John Nauright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world. Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.

Book Six Nations  Two Stories

Download or read book Six Nations Two Stories written by Peter O'Reilly and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Ireland's greatest rugby year Relive, game by game, the key moments in Ireland's historic 2015 Six Nations campaign, which culminated in a nerve-shredding final weekend when both the women's and men's titles were still up for grabs. Through interviews with players like Sean O'Brien, Niamh Briggs, Nora Stapleton and Robbie Henshaw – as well as members of the backroom staff – journalists Kate Rowan and Peter O'Reilly provide a unique glimpse into the mindset of the two camps. Kate looks at recent advances in the Irish women's game, while Peter outlines the transformation in the men's fortunes under Joe Schmidt, 'the best coach in the world'. They highlight the contrasts between the amateur women's and professional men's set-ups and the lifestyles of the players on each team. Six Nations, Two Stories offers unrivalled depth of coverage of a breakthrough Six Nations season: the first time that Ireland won both senior tournaments in one year, renewing optimism in the future of Irish rugby.