Barbara Douglas Cox MBE (born 10 May 1947) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand.
Cox captained the New Zealand women's team in their first ever international as they beat Hong Kong 2–0 on 25 August 1975[1] at the inaugural AFC Women's Asian Cup.
[4] In the 1996 New Year Honours, Cox was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to soccer.
[5] Cox has a 1998 Master's degree from the University of Auckland titled Multiple bodies : sportswomen, soccer and sexuality and a PhD completed in 2010 titled Issues of power in a history of women's football in New Zealand: A Foucauldian genealogy, under the supervision of Toni Bruce.
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