1939: (Sports as Behavioral Control: Although Valcin and Comhaire-Sylvain Discussed Athletics at Length Their Interest with Sports Being Less About Athletici…

1939: (Sports as Behavioral Control: Although Valcin and Comhaire-Sylvain Discussed Athletics at Length Their Interest with Sports Being Less About Athleticism and More About Influencing Young Girls’ Behaviors, According to the LFAS a Fitness Campaign Would Keep Young Girls Occupied and Away from Sexual Exploration and Sex Work, the Study of Leisure Time Being in Fact a Way to Address Elite Women’s Concern for Young Girls’ Comportment Their Public Behavior and Sometimes Their Efficient Labor): Although Valcin and Comhaire-Sylvain discussed athletics at length, their interest with sports was less about athleticism and more about influencing young girls’ behaviors. According to the LFAS, a fitness campaign would keep young girls occupied and away from sexual exploration and sex work. The study of leisure time was, in fact, a way to address elite women’s concern for young girls’ comportment, their public behavior, and sometimes, their efficient labor. The feminist vocabulary of empowerment masked a disciplinary impulse that sought to regulate working-class girls’ sexuality and ensure their availability as a docile labor force.