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This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or `managed' by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood.

This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or `managed' by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered barriers which have influenced women's sporting experiences. Women's lives have always been shaped by the socially and physically constructed life-cycle, and this is all the more apparent when we look at female exercise. Even self-proclaimed `sporty' women have had to negotiate obstacles at various stages of their lives to...