<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">With Woolf, never assume anything means just one thing....<div><br></div><div>I was in high school in Ohio just after Title IX was passed. We had girls teams in some sports but no division or state playoff tournaments yet. My field hockey team was division champ but no playoffs and no award ceremony—kind of anticlimactic. Good training, though, in pursuing an activity because you love it and not because you get silver cups or other goodies. And in that sense good preparation for pursuing an academic career, especially as a woman and a feminist. Part of Woolf’s “unpaid-for education.”</div><div><br></div><div>Diana <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 3, 2021, at 9:22 AM, Jean Mills via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Love this, Stuart, as I have played sports my entire life (now, with less [ahem] agility and more age-ility) and have often had students wanting to explore the idea of sports and competition in Woolf's work (usually as potential substitutes for war), so this reference and its backstory helps. (Also, of course, I'm a big fan of Midge Purce and Megan Rapinoe, et al here across the pond and their push on behalf of women's sports, esp in relation to FIFA). Thanks for the post. -Jean <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 6:24 AM Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>End of ch. 4 of “A Room”:</div>
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<div>“And yet, I continued, approaching the bookcase again, where shall I find
that elaborate study of the psychology of women by a woman? If through their
incapacity to play football women are not going to be allowed to practise
medicine--</div>
<p align="justify">“Happily my thoughts were now given another turn.”</p>
<p align="justify">The mention of football is actually significant: </p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#202122">“Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C.<span><span style="text-align:left"> </span>was one of the earliest <font color="#000000">known<span style="text-align:left"> </span></font></span></font><font color="#000000"><font style="text-decoration:none">women's association
football</font><span><span style="text-align:left"> </span>teams in England. The team remained in
existence for over 48 years, from 1917 to 1965, playing 833 games, winning 759,
drawing 46, and losing 28.</span></font><span><font color="#202122"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-align:left"> </span>During its early years, matches attracted
anywhere from 4,000 to over 50,000 spectators per match.</font><span style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"> ... <span>The
team faced strong opposition by<span style="text-align:left"> </span></span><font style="text-decoration:none">the Football Association</font></font><span><font color="#000000"><span style="text-align:left"> </span>(FA), who banned ...
women from using</font> fields and stadiums controlled by FA-affiliated clubs
for 50 years (the rule was finally repealed in
1971).”</span></span></font></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span><font color="#202122"><span style="text-align:left"><span>“</span></span></font></span><font color="#202122">The resolution passed [on 5/Dec/21] by the FA's Consultative
Committee read: </font><font color="#202122">5. Women's Football Matches. The
following Resolution was adopted: </font><font color="#202122">Complaints having
been made as to football being played by women, Council felt impelled to express
the strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and
should not be encouraged. ...”</font></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_Ladies_F.C.__;!!KGKeukY!jGUbisRx93KWNJuTN9YcaxjUxjQIiE6HcTrRtbpSsntga7rTP50egOUvB2FkyWvy1G8$" target="_blank">h</a><a title="ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_Ladies_F.C." href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_Ladies_F.C.__;!!KGKeukY!jGUbisRx93KWNJuTN9YcaxjUxjQIiE6HcTrRtbpSsntga7rTP50egOUvB2FkyWvy1G8$" target="_blank">ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_Ladies_F.C.</a></p>
<p align="justify">VW remarked on women’s football in particular in ch. 3 of “Three
Guineas” (she clipped the press cutting from the <font style="background-color:rgb(250,235,215)"><i></i></font><font><font><i><font>Daily</font></i><font><span><span style="text-align:left"> </span></span><i>Herald</i></font><span><font><span style="text-align:left"> of </span>15 August 1936),
quoting:</font></span></font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><span><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“Official football circles here
[Wellingborough, Northants] regard with anxiety the growing popularity of girl's
football. A secret meeting of the Northants Football Association's consultative
committee was held here last night to discuss the playing of a girl's match on
the Peterborough ground. Members of the Committee are reticent . . . One member,
however, said today: 'The Northants Football Association is to forbid women's
football. This popularity of girls' football comes when many men's clubs in the
country are in a parlous state through lack of support. Another serious aspect
is the possibility of grave injury to women players.’”</font></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span>Stuart
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<p align="justify"><span>(Day
412)</span></p>
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