Sporting Times

Informationen zum Autor Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games. Klappentext Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disability, technology and the role of the past and the future in sport. Zusammenfassung Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics! this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport! using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement! bodies! sports reporting! memory! disability! technology and the role of the past and the future in sport. Inhaltsverzeichnis Out of the Blocks: Starting Times Time and Motion: Methodologies and Methods Memories Measuring Time: Recording Time Future Times Changing Times: Changing Time

Product details

• Authors: K Woodward, K. Woodward, Kath Woodward, Woodward Kath
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9781137275356
• ISBN: 978-1-137-27535-6
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Palgrave Studies in the Olympi
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; C, sports, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sport Science, Sport: general, Sociology, general, Gender studies, gender groups, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Popular Science in Sports, memory;methodology;methods;Sport;sports;technology