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Why has the participation of women in cricket and football been criticised and their sexuality questioned? By: Natalie Conn 3024022 History 2041 Although sports of one kind or another seem to be a human universal found in every known culture, for children if not for adults, most historians agree that the formal-structure characteristics of modern sports are fundamentally different from those of earlier periods. Modern sports are best understood as the result of those processes of secularization and rationalization classically described by Max Weber in 'Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft'. Sport is open to all on equal terms rather than reserved on the basis of astrictive characteristics like race and more commonly in today's society, sexuality. Women's participation in cricket and football is one issue among many with which we should be concerned. This is because women's participation in sports such as the ones listed above, at all levels are very commonly exposed to damaging myths...

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