Special Issue: Women, Sport and History – Australian and New Zealand Perspectives
Before the ‘Black Ferns’: Tracing the Beginnings of Women’s Rugby in New Zealand
Jennifer Curtin
Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Pleasure: An Historical Case Study from Australian Rules Football
Matthew Klugman
‘See These Brilliant Exponents of the Game’: The England Women’s Hockey Team Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1914
Geoff Watson
An Ironic Imbalance: Coaching Opportunities and Gender in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand
Roslyn Kerr & Georgia Cervin
The Silent Game: A Critical Reading of the History of Netball in Australia
Fiona McLachlan
Stories of Haka and Women’s Rugby in Aotearoa New Zealand: Weaving Identities and Ideologies Together
Farah Rangikoepa Palmer (Ngāti Mahuta [Waikato]; Ngāti Maniapoto)

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