This is the first book to survey the participation of women in sport and physical education across Asia, from the Middle East and South Asia through to the Asia

Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concen

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia. It addresses a wide range o

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invas

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings