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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1907 | | TITLE: | Ann Hall fonds | | CREATOR: | M. Ann Hall | | DATE RANGE: | 1898-2004 | | EXTENT: | 3.23 m of textual records. - 52 audio cassettes. - 2 photographs. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Margaret Ann Hall was born in 1942. Ann earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Physical Education from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She earned a Master of Arts from the Faculty of Physical Education from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta in 1968; her thesis was entitled "A History of Women's Sport in Canada Prior to World War I." She received her doctorate from the University of Birmingham in England. Ann joined the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta in 1968, where she remained until her retirement in 1997. Her teaching and research interests focused primarily on gender relations in sport and leisure as well as the application of feminist epistemology and methodology to the social sciences, and specifically the sociology of sport. She is also a former Chair of the Women's Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. She has written extensively on the topic of women in sport, presented at dozens of conferences internationally, and lectured at several universities. Her publications have included: Fair Ball: Towards Sex Equality in Canadian Sport (with Dorothy A. Richardson, 1982), The Gender Structure of National Sport Organizations (with Dallas Cullen and Trevor Slack, 1990), Feminism and Sporting Bodies: Essays on Theory and Practice (1996), Honoring the Legacy: Fifty Years of the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (with Gertrud Pfister, 1999), and The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada (2002). | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of Dr. Ann Hall's research material for her book The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada. The fonds includes newspaper and magazine clippings, theses and dissertations, profiles of various athletes and athletic organizations, copies of materials from various archives and the Sports Hall of Fame. | | RELATED RECORDS: | A copy of The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada will be available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the University of Alberta libraries database, http://www.library.ualberta.ca/, accessed September 8, 2006 and from the donor. |
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