The Matilda Effect

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The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford explores the impacts and influences of Australia's national women's soccer team, The Matildas, on the landscape of sports. This insightful book delves into the struggles and triumphs in women's football, highlighting the cultural, social, and political breakthroughs driven by the team. It's an inspiring read for anyone interested in sports, gender equality, and the transformative power of resilience and dedication.
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The Matilda Effect

Tells the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women’s football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the world, to compete in World Cup football.

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The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the world, to compete in World Cup football. From the 1980s, when women had to pay to participate in the pilot Women's World Cup, to 2019, when the principle of equal pay for women players was finally accepted amid surging interest in their game, the voices of key figures emerge.

A book at once about and not about sport, and with a throughline of human rights and gender equality history, The Matilda Effect takes the reader out of the stands and onto the pitch, into the team's hotels, buses, boardrooms and social media universe, where positive change has been wrestled into being.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780522878004

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Melbourne University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 147g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Fiona Crawford is one of Australia's most respected women's football writers. She is author of The Matilda Effect and co-author of Never Say Die- The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football. An adjunct lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Justice, Crawford has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, The Guardian, The Conversation, The Big Issue, the Matildas and the W League, FourFourTwo, and the Homeless World Cup. She appears regularly on radio and television.

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