Sport & Leisure

This section contains material on women’s participation in sport and leisure activities as well as organizing efforts to challenge the oppressive institutions and discriminatory ideologies and practices underpinning both these spheres.

More about Sport & Leisure

Key themes include:

  • Health and other benefits for women through participation in sport and leisure activities
  • Women’s rights and opportunities to participate fully in a range of sports and leisure activities at all levels
  • Recognition of women’s abilities, skills, and achievements
  • Legal and social challenges to women’s participation and equal treatment in professional sports, including issues around pay, promotion, and opportunity
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, and ableist culture in sports

Archival Materials

Buttons

Founded in the early 1980s, the NOTSO Amazon Softball League has brought together lesbians, queer positive women, and trans people of all abilities to play recreational softball in a positive and fun environment.
not so amazon – 1985 Softball League

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Sport for All 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Language:

    English
The She-roes were a lesbian baseball team that competed in the Gay Games 1990.
Toronto She-roes

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wen Do was developed as a self-defense course for women and girls and continues to be an important feminist initiative that focuses on issues of sexual violence facing women and teaches women how to protect themselves. It is trans inclusive.
Wendo Women Only

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
CAAW and S Atlantic Conference – Sport and Feminism

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    PEI

  • Language:

    English
Cycling Women: A Conference for Bicycle Riders

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "Spirit of the Kata" depicting four white women doing karate in a gym.
Spirit of the Kata

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Sharon McGowan

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

Branching Out

Branching Out – Vol. 5, No. 4 – 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    New Women's Magazine Society

  • Author(s):

    Sharon Batt , Helen Greaves, Aritha van Herk, Diana S. Palting , Karen Lawrence , Betty Mardiros, Nancy Schelstraete , Donna Rae, Judith Mirus, Kris Purdy, Alison Griffiths, Mary Lou Creechan , Elaine Butler, Patty Loverock, Jolanta Samler , Frankie Ford , Maria Jacobs, Paddy Webb, Barbara Brown, Rebecca Burke

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English