Female Tradition in Physical Education

David Kirk is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and formerly held the Alexander Chair in Physical Education and Sport at the University of Bedfordshire. He is author of studies of two curriculum histories in physical education, Defining Physical Education (Routledge, 1992) and Schooling Bodies (Cassell, 1998). His most recent books are Physical Education Futures (Routledge, 2010) and Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Approach (with Kimberly L. Oliver, Routledge, 2015).Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Kinesiology and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is author of The Eternally Wounded Woman: Doctors, Women and Exercise in the Late 19th Century ( University of Illinois Press, 1990); Sites of Sport: Space, Place and Experience (with John Bale, Routledge, 2004); Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument and Modernism (with Sherry McKay, Routledge, 2004), and Physical Culture, Power and the Body (with Jennifer Hargreaves, Routledge, 2007).

• 1. Re-Examining Women First: Re-Writing the History of the ‘End of an Era’ 2. The Displacement of Ling for Laban: A Growing Alliance of Dance with the Arts 3. Dancing in New Directions: Transatlantic Connections 4. Under the Critical Eye: An Insider’s Experience of the Female Tradition 5. Behind and Beyond Women First: Hidden Histories and Silences in the Female Tradition 6. Moving to the ‘Midway Model’: The Longer Term Development of Dance Education 7. ‘Masculinisation’, ‘Sportification’ and ‘Academicisation’ in the Men’s Colleges: A Case Study of the Carnegie Curriculum 8. Transformation or Accommodation? The Entry of Women Students into Carnegie 9. Refuge: The Female Tradition, Gender, Class, Sex, and Sport in Northern England, 1960s–1970s 10. Gender Dynamics in the Making and Breaking of a Female PETE Culture in Sweden 11. The Rediscovery of a Female Tradition in the Physical Activity Field: The Case of Therapeutic Exercise 12. Women First Revisited: Recent Historical Research and Perspectives on U.S. Physical Education 13. Troubling the Progress and Loss Narratives: Insiders and Outsiders, Silences and Omissions, Signs and Route-Markers

"Though all chapters align with the theme and aim, there is real variety in the content. This is a welcome contribution to the field and does well to complement Fletcher’s original work, whilst also showing how the development of theoretical frameworks and standardised approaches (for example in oral history) have helped to improve our production and analysis of source materials to refine our understanding of the past."'Eilidh Macrae, University of the West of Scotland'