TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rafaelle Nicholson
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1664-1906
SN  - 9781788742948
TI  - Ladies and Lords
T2  - A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain
DO  - 10.3726/b13283
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056790
N2  - This book offers the first ever academic study of women’s cricket in Britain from its origins in the 18th century to the present day. It examines women’s cricket from grassroots to international level, in schools, universities, the workplace and clubs. The book draws on a wealth of new source material including player diaries and scrapbooks, club records and the records of the Women’s Cricket Association. Through use of oral history interviews with many former players, the book argues that women’s cricket was a site of feminism across its history, and an important source of empowerment to the women who participated in the sport. However, it also examines barriers to women’s participation, analyzing the persistence of opposition to women’s sport across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Overall, the book uses women’s cricket as a case study to highlight the existence of ongoing fundamental inequalities in the quantity and quality of women's leisure in contemporary Britain.
KW  - Sports history, cricket, women’s history
LA  - English
ER  -