Games and Sporting Events in History: Organisations, Performances and Impact

Foreword Annette R. Hofmann, Gerald Gems and Maureen Smith 1. Revisiting (and Revising?) Sports Boycotts: From Rugby against South Africa to Soccer in Israel Malcolm MacLean 2. Re-Entering the Sporting World: China's Sponsorship of the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) Russell Field 3. Opening a Window on Early Twentieth-Century School Sport in Cape Town Society Francois J. Cleophas 4. On the Margins: Therapeutic Massage, Physical Education and Physical Therapy Defining a Profession Alison Wrynn 5. Discourses on the Production of the Athletic Lean Body in Central Europe around 1900 Rudolf Mullner 6. Women Boxers: Actresses to Athletes - The Role of Vaudeville in Early Women's Boxing in the USA Gerald Gems and Gertrud Pfister 7. British Cultural Influence and Japan: Elizabeth Phillips Hughes's Visit for Educational Research in 1901 - 1902 Keiko Ikeda