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Copyright of Ager: Journal of Depopulation & Rural Development Studies / Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural is the property of Rolde de Estudios Aragoneses and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various reports within the issue on the topic of gender and British mountain climbing histories.

Copyright of International Journal of the History of Sport is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

In May 1995, a 33 year-old woman named Alison Hargreaves made her name by becoming the first woman (and second person) to make an unaided solo ascent of the world's highest mountain, Everest. She was constructed as an exemplar of the highest order, a national heroine to be proud of, and in the vein of a series of British female heroes who punctuate the typically masculine narrative of national achievement. By August she was dead, the victim of a violent storm on the upper reaches of the peak they call the Savage Mountain, K2. The focus of vitriolic media attention, Hargreaves was stripped of her heroic status and condemned for the irresponsibility of leaving her two small children motherless, and so opened a national debate on 'motherhood, ambition and risk'. This article explores that debate. In so doing it probes the meaning of heroism, as both a culturally mediated idea of extraordinary actions, and as part of a wider politics of recognition and representation that calls for a consideration of the role of public communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews current vocational education and training policy within the sport and recreation sector of the UK economy, in particular, it examines the inroads New Labour's Skills Agenda has had in the sector, and how far this can he characterized as a paradigm shift from Fordist/Keynesian accumulation toward new forms of post-Fordist/post-Keynesian regulation. Informed by Jessop's Regulation Theory, it questions the extent to which the construct of employment sectors remains valid as a means of identifying and organizing social and economic development. In so doing it reports the findings of group interviews with managers and employers in the sport and recreation sector, which conclude that there have been profound structural changes in employment patterns over two decades, which have culminated in the decline of sport and recreation as a vocation. Rather, sport and recreation is now characterized as a predominantly short term and transitory element of a broader service employment sector. This finding indicates that the sector has assumed many of the characteristics of post-Fordist regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]