Schüpbach, Yvonne (2024). Negotiating the Space between East and West: Sport and Gender Politics in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in the Cold War Era. The International Journal of the History of Sport, pp. 1-19. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/09523367.2024.2384549
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During the Cold War, women’s artistic gymnastics changed funda-mentally and became an important battleground between Eastand West in the struggle for supremacy. As a supposedly neutralstate and gymnastics federation, the case of Swiss sport and gen-der politics was left out. To analyze the Swiss case in women’sartistic gymnastics and its negotiation and positioning betweenEast and West, written archival sources and oral histories are ana-lyzed using a gender historical approach. By analyzing rejectionand transfer through boycott, codification, sport policy, receptionof coaching and sport techniques, as well as athletes’ welfare, theinterconnectedness of gender and sports policy during the ColdWar is explored and exemplified. The Swiss Gymnastics Federation,on the one hand, distinguished itself from the East as a referencespace, which was imagined as different and indeed successful, butalso harsh and totalitarian, but on the other hand, also importedand (re)produced knowledge and promising strategies. This ambiv-alent positioning between East and West, however, reveals both agendered and political rejection of the other while using it as arole model and locating problems of athletes’ welfare in the East.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Institute of History, Modern and Contemporary General and Swiss History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schüpbach, Yvonne |
ISSN: |
1743-9035 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Yvonne Schüpbach |
Date Deposited: |
05 Aug 2024 12:45 |
Last Modified: |
06 Aug 2024 00:16 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/09523367.2024.2384549 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Gymnastics, gender, politics, cold war, athlete welfare |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/199485 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/199485 |
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