Women and sport in comparative and international perspectives: issues, aims and theoretical approaches / Gerturd Pfister and Ilse Hartmann-Tews. Women and sport in Norway / Kari Fasting. Women and sport in the UK / Anita White. The inclusion of women into the German sport system / Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Sascha Alexandra Luetkens. Sports development and inclusion of women in France / Nicole Dechavanne and Ilse Hartmann-Tews. Women and sport in Spain / Núria Puig and Susanna Soler. Women and sport in the Czech Republic / Ludmila Fialová. Women and sport in Tanzania / Prisca Massao and Kari Fasting. Women and sport in South Africa: shaped by history and shaping sporting history / Denise E.M. Jones. Social issues in American women's sports / D. Margaret. Costa Girls' and women's sport in Canada: from playground to podium / M. Ann Hall. Brazilian women and girls in physical activities and sport / Ludmila Mourão and Sebastião Votre. Women in Colombian sport: a review of absence and redemption / Rubiela Arboleda Gómez and Gloria Vallejo Rendón. Women and sport in Iran: keeping goal in the hijab? / Gertrud Pfister. Women's sport in the People's Republic of China: body, politics and the unfinished revolution / Fan Hong. Gender relations in Japanese sports organisation and sport involvement / Machiko Kimura. Women and sport in New Zealand / Shona M. Thompson. Women's inclusion in sport: international and comparative findings / Ilse Hartmann-Tews and Gertrud Pfister.