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Discuss how feminist theory can help explain women's experiences of health and or sport. Within this essay I am going to discuss how feminist theory can help explain women's experiences of sport. I am going to give a brief outline of four feminist perspectives and then look at how some of the perspectives help explain women's experiences of sport, specifically Formula 1 motoracing. Feminism is concerned with understanding the oppression and trying to put right the inequalities of women, in an essay entitled What is Feminism? Rosalind Delamar suggested that "at the very least a feminist is someone who holds that women suffer discrimination because of their sex, that they have specific needs which remain negated and unsatisfied, and that satisfaction of these needs would require a radical change (some would say a revolution even) in the social, economic and political order". (Delamar in J Mitchell and A Oakley eds, 1986:8)...

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