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In this chapter Macrae summarises her key arguments regarding experiences of women’s exercise in adolescence, the post-school years, menstruation, pregnancy, marriage, and motherhood. She reviews her key arguments regarding the medical community’s views of women and sport; the development of state facilities for women’s sport and exercise in twentieth-century Britain; and general barriers toward female participation in sport and exercise throughout the life-cycle. Macrae shows how her arguments relate to other researchers working in this field and what her findings contribute to the historiographical landscape.
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The exception would be particularly affluent families who could send their daughters to boarding schools with excellent PE facilities.
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Skillen, ‘When Women Look their Worst’, p. 122.
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See Helen’s experiences as discussed in Chap. 3.
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Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England, p. 189; Skillen, ‘When Women Look their Worst’, p. 203.
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See Chap. 4.
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See Chap. 2.
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See Chap. 4.
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See Chap. 3.
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Skillen, ‘When Women Look their Worst’, p. 205.
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Skillen, ‘When Women Look their Worst’, p. 200.
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Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England; B. Soland (2000) Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s (Princeton: Princeton University Press), p. 48; Skillen, ‘When Women Look their Worst’, pp. 202–203.
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For example, see the experiences of Mary M. and Christine discussed in Chap. 3.
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Matthews, ‘Building the Body Beautiful, p. 17; Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body, p. 238, see Chap. 1.
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This strikes a chord with the work of Szreter, Fisher, and Thane: Szreter and Fisher, ‘Love and Authority in Mid-Twentieth-Century Marriages: Sharing and Caring’; P. Thane (2012) ‘Introduction: Exploring Post-war Britain’, Cultural and Social History, 9:2, pp. 271–275.
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P. Vertinsky (2000) ‘A Woman’s P(l)ace in the Marathon of Life: Feminist Perspectives on Physical Activity and Aging’, Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 8, pp. 386–406; P. Vertinsky (2002) ‘Sporting Women in the Public Gaze: Shattering the Master Narratives of Aging Female Bodies’, Canadian Woman Studies/ Le Cahiers de la Femme, 21:3, pp. 58–63.
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Norah, oral history interview.
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Christine, oral history interview.
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Betty, oral history interview.
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Macrae, E.H.R. (2016). Conclusion. In: Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970. Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58319-2_6
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