Today it's 100 years since feminists in England banned women from playing football
Today Peter Klevius announces his groundbreaking book Born to Play a Sport of Nature which analyses the history of English and Swedish female football
The
drawing I did in 1979. Only the football is added. The drawing is
called 'Woman' but could also have been named 'sex segregation'. It
tries to express the development and forgotten pain from below through
fire up to the crown of freedom, while entangled in religion and a DNA
like steel ladder with rivets, symbolizing both imprisonment as well as a
way up and out. I used it in many exhibitions and with different
coloring, incl. photographics/solarization in 1979 and the early 1980s.
The
book is guided by the anti-fascist Universal Human Rights declaration
from 1948 which clearly states (Art. 2) that women ought not to be
segrageted when it comes to Human Rights.
Mary Scharlieb,
racist* feminist* top physician and gynaecologist (1921): ‘Female
football is an embarrassing, shameful and disgracing activity,
especially unsuitable for women.’
* According to Wikipedia 2021.
England
FA ban 5 December 1921: ‘Complaints have been made as to football being
played by women, the Council feel impelled to express their strong
opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and
ought not to be encouraged.‘
You can order it here
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