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MacLean, Malcolm 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5750-4670, Oldfield, Samantha-Jayne and Hess, Rob
(2023)
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball: An Overview.
International Journal of the History of Sport, 39 (13-14).
pp. 1411-1421.
doi:10.1080/09523367.2022.2178768
Abstract
Despite its notable global presence as one of the most popular sports for women, netball has almost no profile within sports history and only a very limited body of scholarly work exploring its historical and socio-cultural presence. The game, developed in the 1890s as an off-shoot of basketball consistent with prevailing gender ideologies of the era, took hold in British Physical Training Colleges before being taken up as a team sport suitable for girls and women across much of the British world. Yet, as a sport coded suitable for women, developed, organized, led and institutionalized by women, it remains comparatively marginal in both the wider sports world and in sport-related scholarship. This introductory essay sketches the nature of that marginalization, considers the limited body of scholarly work exploring netball’s history, and provides a frame for understanding this first collection of scholarly analyses of netball history.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Netball; Basketball; Gender; Marginalization; Women’s sport; Physical education |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports > GV861 Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc. |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Research Priority Areas: | Health, Life Sciences, Sport and Wellbeing |
| Depositing User: | Anna Kerr |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2023 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 09:06 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/12416 |
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