Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Sport in the Global Society series pages; Historical Perspectives series pages; Prologue: Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft! Extending the Dialogue on Women, Sport and Physical Activities; 1. From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance: Margaret H'Doubler and Martha Hill; 2. The Physical is Political: Women's Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes and the Public Sphere; 3. From Alice Milliat to Marie-Thérèse Eyquem: Revisiting Women's Sport in France (1920s-1960s). 4. Eliza Maria Mosher: Pioneering Woman Physician and Advocate for Physical Education5. Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1920s-1950s; 6. Leading the Way in Science, Medicine and Physical Training: Female Physicians in Academia, 1890-1930; 7. Empowering Women through Sport: Women's Basketball in Brazil and the Significant Role of Maria Helena Cardoso; 8. Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman; 9. Women as Leaders: What Women Have Attained In and Through the Field of Physical Education.

During the last four decades women's and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes. We have become increasingly aware that women have made contributions to physical education, dance and sport that go far beyond being teachers, athletes and coaches. They have created and implemented an astonishing variety of programs intended to serve the needs of large numbers of children and youth sometimes organizing student health services, as well.