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Florence Carpentier et al., « The modern Olympic Movement, women’s sport and the social order during the inter-war period », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.1080/09523360600832387
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The Olympic Movement, created by the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin, wasconceived as a tool to promote and spread European aristocratic and masculine values.That is why women were not included in the first Olympic programme in 1896.Nevertheless, the growing influence of feminist movements before and after the FirstWorld War sparked the development of international women’s sports contests. Since1921, the Fe´de´ration Sportive Fe´minine Internationale, directed by Alice Milliat,organized regular ‘Women’s Games’ and was affiliated with the same number ofcountries as similar male international federations. This expanded role of women andwomen’s sport challenged the established social order of masculine domination. Despitethe fact that women’s participation in the Games can be seen as early as 1900, theOlympic Games at which the participation of female athletes became more notable tosome historians was not until those held in 1928 in Amsterdam. But the overture madeto women did not emerge from the willingness of the International Olympic Committee.Rather, it must be attributed to Sigfried Edstro¨m, President of the International AmateurAthletic Federation (IAAF). The motives of Edstro¨m were far from benevolent; he wantedto control women’s sport in order to maintain the social order dominated by men.
