Description:
This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women's artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of women's artistic gymnastics.
Review Quotes: "Women's Artistic Gymnastics is a valuable contribution to the study of female sport in general and gymnastics in particular. Its fourteen original scholarly essays--plus an introduction and a conclusion--cover a broad spectrum of historical, sociological, psychological, medical, and media-related issues from several theoretical and methodological perspectives and, hence, enriches our understanding of a complex sport."-- Olaf Stieglitz, University of Leipzig