Sporting Gender

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Sporting Gender is written by Yunxiang Gao and published by UBC Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0774824832 (ISBN 10) and 9780774824835 (ISBN 13).

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these women and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.