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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Les femmes, actrices de l'éducation physique et sportive, numéro spécial

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This special bilingual issue features contributions on the role women have played in PE (Physical Education). The challenge is to offer a comprehensive picture of their individual and collective journeys, their diverse identity constructs and their specific didactic and pedagogical orientations, but also to pinpoint the major steps taken in enabling them to secure key positions in the school institution, beyond purely teaching roles. Coincidentally, this issue of the STAPS journal follows in the wake of a special section on women and gender recently published in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Vertinsky & Hedenborg, 2018). The purpose of the supplement, which was edited by Patricia Vertinsky and Susanna Hedenborg, was to update research on the role of women in the promotion of physical and sporting activities. Our objective is to cast a fresh spotlight on the female protagonists of PE, focusing on their ability to overcome the obstacles encountered in the teaching, school inspection and trade union spheres, based on historical and sociological approaches developed in France and in Europe.