How women were excluded from sport – and fought back

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Looking at sport history, it’s easy to get the impression that women’s involvement in sporting activities only began in the 1970s. However, as author Rachel Hewitt outlines, women were excluded from sport as rules and regulations were codified from the 19th century. Speaking with David Musgrove, she considers how the sporting and outdoors endeavours of women have consequently been overlooked in sporting history. (Ad) Rachel Hewitt is the author of In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors (Vintage, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Nature-Women-Boundaries-Outdoors-ebook/dp/B0BD73MK7K/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	If you look into the history of sport, it's easy to get the impression that women's
1:15.0	participation in sporting activities only really began in the 1970s. But in her new book,
1:23.0	In Her Nature, Rachel Hewitt tells a different story.
1:33.4	David Musgrove spoke to Rachel about how the outdoor endeavours of women have been overlooked and began by asking why she decided to write this book.
1:38.0	I came to running and in particular to trail running, so running off road in the countryside
1:44.1	in around sort of 2015, so running off-road in the countryside, in around sort of
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