Physical Culture, Power and the Body

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Hargreaves is Visiting Professor of Sport and Gender Politics at Brighton University, UK. Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Human Kinetics and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Klappentext This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Zusammenfassung This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Movement Practices and Fascist Infections: From Dance Under the Swastika to Movement Education in the British Primary School 3. Political Somatics: Fascism, Physical Culture and the Sporting Body 4. Sport, Exercise and the Female Muslim Body: Negotiating Islam, Politics, and Male Power 5. Producing Girls: Empire, Sport, and the Neoliberal Body 6. Entertaining Femininities: The Embodied Exhibitions of Striptease and Sport, 1950-1975 7. The Social Logic of Sparring 8. Disabled Bodies and Narrative Time: Men, Sport, and Spinal Cord Injury 9. 'It's Not About Health, It's About Performance': Sport Medicine, Health and the Culture of Risk in Canadian Sport 10. Welcome to the Sportocracy: 'Race' and Sport After Innocence 11. Race and Athletics in the 21st Century 12. Technologized Bodies: Virtual Women and Transformations in Understandings of the Body as Natural

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• Authors: Jennifer Hargreaves, Ian McDonald, Patricia A. Vertinsky
• Assisted by: Jennifer Hargreaves (Editor), Jennifer (Independent Scholar Hargreaves (Editor), Hargreaves Jennifer (Editor), Patricia Vertinsky (Editor), Patricia (University of British Columbia Vertinsky (Editor), Vertinsky Patricia (Editor), Jennifer Hargreaves (Editor of the series), Ian McDonald (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415363518
• ISBN: 978-0-415-36351-8
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport; Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology