Zusammenfassung

In 1926, the second World Women’s Games were held in Gothenburg. These Games were organised by the ‚Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale’ (FSFI) and included 11 track and field events. The Games were watched by 8000 spectators and were covered by all major newspapers in Sweden. A private collection of event photographs illustrates the seriousness and success of the competitions. It is the aim of this study to collect and analyse these texts using a framework based on critical/feminist discourse analysis. Three key research questions will guide the research: a) What social discourses do the newspaper cartoons, photographs and textual descriptions reflect?; b) What social discourses do the photographs from the private collection reflect and how do they compare with the contents of the newspaper articles?; and c) How did the World Women’s Games, through the FSFI, influence the assimilation into the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), or its rejection, respectively.