Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas

   Pages 1-15

3. Women in Sport Organizations: Historiographical and Epistemological Challenges

   • Florys Castan-Vicente, Claire Nicolas, Georgia Cervin

   Pages 17-48

4. Late Nineteenth-Century Swimming Teachers in England

   • Dave Day

   Pages 49-74

5. Gender Performances of Sports Organization Leaders: A Comparative (Re)Examination of Alice Milliat’s, Suzanne Lenglen’s and Marie-Thérèse Eyquem’s Trajectories

   • Florys Castan-Vicente

   Pages 75-99

6. Ghost Administrators: Re-centring Marisa Bonacossa, Lydia Zanchi and Suzanne Otth Within International Sport Organizations

   • Quentin Tonnerre, Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti

   Pages 101-125

7. Unsung Women Federal Leaders Within the Labour Sport Federation in France, from Its Establishment to the Second Post-war Period

   • Yannick Deschamps

   Pages 127-159

8. A Case Study Comparison of the Presence of Women in Two Olympic Organizing Committees: Mexico 1968 and Barcelona 1992

   • Alberto Aragón-Pérez, Axel Elías Jiménez

   Pages 161-186

9. Having a Place of One’s Own: Doing a Feminist Ethnography of the Swiss Shooting Museum’s Archives

   • Solène Froidevaux

   Pages 187-216

10. From Handball Courts to Ministries: The Cousins of Côte d’Ivoire

    • Claire Nicolas

    Pages 217-244

11. From the Carpet to the Executive Committee: Women Leading Women’s Gymnastics

    • Georgia Cervin, Grégory Quin, Axel Elías Jiménez

    Pages 245-271

12. The Promotion of Women in Sport Within the Council of Europe and the European Sport Conference from the 1960s to the 1990s

    • Stefan Scholl

    Pages 273-297

13. Women Within International Sports Federations: Contemporary Challenges

    • Lucie Schoch, Joséphine Clausen

    Pages 299-326

14. Afterword: Doing History of Gender and Sport—A Feminist Perspective as a French Sports Historian and Practitioner

    • Anaïs Bohuon

    Pages 327-338

15. Back Matter

    Pages 339-347

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Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival material to uncover histories of women’s work in sport, from swimming teachers in nineteenth-century England to national sports administrators in twentieth-century Côte d’Ivoire, and many places in between. Their work has been varied, holding roles as teachers, wives, and secretaries in sporting contexts around the world, often with diplomatic functions—including at the 1968 and 1992 Olympic Games. Finally, this collection shows how gender initiatives have developed in sporting institutions in Europe and international sport federations today. With a foreword by Grégory Quin and afterword by Anaïs Bohuon, this is a pioneering study into gender and women’s work in global sport.

• national sports organisation
• international sports federations
• Olympic Committees
• sport governance
• sport management
• Olympic Games
• women in sport
• female leadership in sports
• Council of Europe
• European Sport Conference
• gymnastics

• The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

  Georgia Cervin

• University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Claire Nicolas

Georgia Cervin is an honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia. Drawing on her experience as an international gymnast, her research has focused on women’s artistic gymnastics in terms of international politics, gender, governance, coaching and athlete rights.


Claire Nicolas is finishing her PhD at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the connections between sports, gender and nationalism in West Africa.

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