It's still a man's game?: The experiences of top-level European women footballers

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-111

  Scraton, Sheila ^a   Fasting, Kari ^b   Pfister, Gertrud ^c,d   Bunuel, Ana ^e  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Freie Universitat ^*  (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Seminario Permanente Mujer y Deporte   (Spain)

Author keywords

cross national research; gender; women's football

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345218184     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/101269099034002001     Document Type: Article

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