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...respect and sportsmanship, both on and off the field. At the same time as being world-class athletes, sportswomen are expected to be physically appealing (e.g., wear make-up, paint fingernails), while photographs of sportswomen in the media are generally more likely to be sexually suggestive. However, there has been a trending movement in football which has been viewed as widening narrow beauty standards. Those who defend ......

...classes in the post-war period. There were several reasons for this. As Mark Singleton, yoga historian and senior research fellow at SOAS, pointed out, modern yoga practice has much in common with exercise methods such as Swedish and Danish gymnastic drills that were popular for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yoga also offered relief from what...