ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters have presented numerous, mainly descriptive information on sports developments over the past decades with a particular focus on the inclusion of women in sixteen countries from all parts of the world and representing a range of socio-economic, political and cultural settings: Norway, Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Czech Republic, USA, Canada, Brazil, Columbia, Iran, Tanzania, South Africa, China, Japan and New Zealand. Readers who are primarily interested in basic facts, or descriptions of trends and developments in specific countries, will probably have found the information they are seeking in the relevant chapters. The insights of indigenous scholars and foreign nationals with cultural expertise characterise each chapter and make them of special value .
