This document discusses the history of women's participation in sports from ancient times to the present. It describes how early women's sports were limited but began expanding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, influenced by factors like the women's rights movement, education reforms, and the rise of cycling. Sports like field hockey emerged but faced opposition over concerns about women's health. Attitudes gradually changed as women participated in the Olympics starting in the 1920s and gained more acceptance in areas like tennis and baseball.

1. THIS SPORTING LIFE WHY? WHAT? WHEN? FASHION?

6. ARISTOCRATIC WOMEN FOLLOWED THE SAME SPORTS HUNTING AND HAWKING GELS

8. SOME LIKE BREUGAL GIVE US MORE THAN A GLIMPSE

9. 1612 Cotswold Olympiks And Badger baiting – rat catching

10. “Revolting Exhibition Among Pennsylvania Miners (1900)

12. FOR THE ELITE: ROWING BECAME A SPORT

13. FOR THE MASSES IT WAS WORK: EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE THE OLDEST SPORTING EVENT IN NORTH AMERICA 1930 Women’s winners 1890 View

14. AND FOR SOME WORKING PEOPLE IT WAS NOT SPORT, IT WAS LIFE OR DEATH. AND NO PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT EITHER

19. WITH SUITABLE FOUNDATIONS 1897

22. AFTER ALL SPORTING EXERTION CAN HARM FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS

23. SO CERTAIN SPORTS FOR WOMEN CONTINUED TO BE CLASS BASED

24. WITH SOME RISQUE EXCEPTIONS

25. WHILE THE WORKING CLASSES CONTINUED ON THEIR VIOLENT WAY ‘MILLING AROUND’

28. SOME OF THE ‘RATIONAL DRESS’ PROPOSALS DID NOT FIND MUCH FAVOUR WITH CYCLING WOMEN -Dr Mary Walker CMO – Marietta Stow 1884 ran for California Gov. – Dr Harriet Austin 1865 – Dr Lydia Hasbrouk

29. EXTENSION OF PRIVATE AND HIGHER EDUCATION TO WOMEN

30. 1902 Smith College

31. HOCKEY AND ATHLETIC DRESS (IT STARED AS A WILD GAELIC GAME)

35. SO SPORTING LADIES HAVE COME A LONG WAY

36. AND GIRLS ARE ONCE AGAIN PUNCHING EACH OTHERS LIGHTS OUT

38. AND THE RISE OF AN UNFIT SECTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WEARING THEM?

39. AND ELITE WOMENS SPORT BECOMING SHOW BUSINESS RATHER THAN JUST ATHLETIC

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41. THIS SPORTING LIFE WHY? WHAT? WHEN? FASHION?